"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
11/05/2019 at 07:30 • Filed to: Oppositelock, Goodnight Oppo
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"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
11/05/2019 at 07:30 • Filed to: Oppositelock, Goodnight Oppo | 0
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Is it even possible to do this all again? To stand as one userbase and tell G/O Media that they need us more than we need them
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Or am I much too late? Is this a battle we shouldn’t fight anymore ? And is our refuge ready?
vondon302
> Wheelerguy
11/05/2019 at 07:36 |
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Who knows?
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Wheelerguy
> vondon302
11/05/2019 at 07:42 |
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If there’s a big enough chance then we should seize it, act, show those herbs that we’re what built Kinja and Gizmodo Media.
Cash Rewards
> Wheelerguy
11/05/2019 at 07:54 |
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Offer o-deck a spot on the lifeboat, if they help build it
Chuckles
> Wheelerguy
11/05/2019 at 08:42 |
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I am not sure that “we are staying” is the message we want to send this time. Because that sort of implies “even if you turn this site to shit, we’ll be here.”
Mercedes Streeter
> Wheelerguy
11/05/2019 at 08:44 |
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If you basically copy that 2016 post and substitute Univision for Great Hill Partners? Sure.
If that post is just a bunch of Herb comments? No. Thus far, every popular post calling the owners Herbs has resulted in the hosting blog being deleted and some people getting banned from all FPs. They're very serious about controlling the Herb message.
Urambo Tauro
> Wheelerguy
11/05/2019 at 08:46 |
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I dunno what else to say that hasn’t already been said. And I fear that the powers that be are in such an overly defensive mental state, that there’s no turning back now. They’re willing to lose their own writers ; they’re certainly willing to lose us too.
And they seem to think that t aking away user blogs is going to push us to spend more time clicking on the main sites. I think it’s going to have the opposite effect, pushing a lot of us away from Kinja altogether. I don’t want to do that to the remaining writers, but I find myself very discouraged by the whole mess .
Jason Spears
> Urambo Tauro
11/05/2019 at 08:58 |
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I’m taking their main sites out of my RSS reader, which is how I get to everything. Out of sight, out of mind. I hate it.
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Wheelerguy
> Chuckles
11/05/2019 at 09:00 |
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That’s the difference, isn’t it? Univision at least had the sense to realize what they have, which meant they had the capacity to listen . G/O Media do not, at fucking all. It’s why I’m flash-archiving everything dear to me here (not all but you get the idea). This was my home before I finally hit college. And these punks destroyed it.
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> Wheelerguy
11/05/2019 at 09:00 |
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It doesn’t really m atter what we want. They’re willing to nuke the place just to make a point. Probably be st not to get into a pissing match with them if you like posting here.
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Chuckles
> Wheelerguy
11/05/2019 at 09:03 |
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and 100 more
> Wheelerguy
11/05/2019 at 09:07 |
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In all honesty, if the owners cared that much about what goes on here, we wouldn’t be discussing leaving at all. They don’t even understand the team of staff that they acquired, nor do they care to. The more this goes on, the more I think this latest acquisition has political motives, as you can see them soft-shoe around idea of shutting down user pages, now that they realize they could lose their pre-existing army of click-generators (aka, us).
No; as much as I have taken the wait-and-see approach thru all the other Gawkerpocalypses, that usually amounted to needless Kinja revisions and axing of some very talented people, this one reeks of political agenda and censorship, and I think its time to move on. Someone much smarter than me once said something like,”Those who choose security over freedom deserve neither” (I probably butchered that quote). Well, Those who acquire Gawker, and choose censorship over respecting the staff and reader-base, also deserve neither, and can GTFAC (let’s see if they can suss that one out).
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Wheelerguy
> Urambo Tauro
11/05/2019 at 09:09 |
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Which is patently dumb. Then again, they don’t seem to want to put in the effort to know what Kinja and its userbase really is capable of, it isn’t much of a surprise, merely a disappointment.