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Máté Petrány had three stories on the Jalopnik front page today, even though someone knew he was getting let go. For an extra kick in the ribs, his last comment on Kinja, referencing Peter Orosz’s influence and insight working for Jalopnik:
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
So Jalopnik muckety-mucks knew about Mate getting let go today and probably before, but still had his stories put up? Stay classy.
ETA: I’m sure Jalopnik staffers are about as happy with this (and Sean) as Máté is, but it is still shitty.
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 12:57 |
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yup.
Dru
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 12:59 |
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Jebus. What is happening?
Svend
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:00 |
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I hope their Takata airbags go off in their faces when they close the car door.
Clemsie McKenzie
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:01 |
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Oh no, not him too :(
Bourbon&JellyBeans
> Dru
05/17/2016 at 13:02 |
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This is Gawker Media throwing all the extra weight off the ship to keep it above water.
Quadradeuce
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:02 |
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I sort of wonder if they offered to pay him for any work that was ready to go. I think he has 3-4 posts up today, which is way more than normal and obviously so high due to his firing.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:02 |
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He was probably already paid for them...
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Party-vi
> Dru
05/17/2016 at 13:02 |
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Denton thought putting an aging wrestler’s sex tape on display was newsworthy. A jury in Florida thought otherwise.
Mercedes Streeter
> Dru
05/17/2016 at 13:03 |
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Damage control. Gawker isn’t a company that’s too big to fail...and Hogan is going after them for what’s probably much more than they’re even worth. So they’re shuttering blogs and firing staff in a desperate attempt to keep the lights on?
cazzyodo
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:04 |
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Everyone at Gawker is being dropped and we’re here just like “dur hur oppooooooo!!!!’
It’s the simple life for me.
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Party-vi
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
05/17/2016 at 13:06 |
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He was let go this morning from what his Twitter reads, and two of the posts occurred after the fact. I’m hopeful that he was paid for them, and I hope he received some sort of severance package but it still seems shitty to me.
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Dru
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:07 |
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So you're saying, in no uncertain terms, Hulkamania is running wild on Gawker?
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cazzyodo
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:07 |
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Also, Mate found out on his “today” which is 6 hours ahead of the Gawker office.
Let that sink in further.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:07 |
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They went full Gawker, you never go full Gawker...
Chariotoflove
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:08 |
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Did they just let him come to work this morning and fire him out of the blue with no warning?
MUSASHI66
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:08 |
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If/when Jalopnik gets shut down, and if/when they go under and kinja.com domain stops working, is anyone here going to start a blog somewhere else? Is there a contingency plan?
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Mercedes Streeter
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
05/17/2016 at 13:08 |
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Indeed. I think they were probably scheduled posts, in which assuming Gawker works on a per-click basis, means he’s entitled to pay for his work...but of course also means they would get posted after he got let go.
JDIGGS
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:09 |
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Want to see where YOU SHIT THE BED?
It’s really sad to me that the marketing people here are so stupid an inexperienced.
YOU HAVE SERIOUSLY UNDERESTIMATED, the amount of people that view this different sites solely because of their core site like jalopnik or oppo are awesome. IF YOU DIMINISH THESE SITES we will no longer be coming around to click your little top articles from gizmodo and shittabel etc....
Are you guys that young and stupid you don’t realize how it works?
HammerheadFistpunch
> MUSASHI66
05/17/2016 at 13:11 |
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We like to bitch and moan about the big G but without them...there is no Oppo and there is no plan b. We will all either find new homes elsewhere, or *sigh* start being productive again.
V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:12 |
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Who needs good writers anyways ? That Hulk Hogan tape was really worth it...
RedlineZ bought an SV (And is getting rid of the z)
> MUSASHI66
05/17/2016 at 13:13 |
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OppositeTalk on Facebook. We can regroup from there
Meatcoma
> HammerheadFistpunch
05/17/2016 at 13:13 |
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Without them we will get plan b’d.
TheHondaBro
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:13 |
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They will never take Torchinsky from us. NEVER.
Short-throw Granny Shifter is 2 #blessed 2b stressed
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:13 |
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Oppos are like: “Come work for us. We can offer a ride along in someone’s Miata and a 5 hotwheels per month stipend. *No visa sponsorship."
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MUSASHI66
> HammerheadFistpunch
05/17/2016 at 13:14 |
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Facebook I guess...
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Party-vi
> cazzyodo
05/17/2016 at 13:14 |
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So he did a full day of work and stories, which are still being posted today. The most recent post about the Ferrari California would have been posted by him at 5:43pm local time.
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cazzyodo
> Dru
05/17/2016 at 13:15 |
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You better believe it, brother.
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Party-vi
> Chariotoflove
05/17/2016 at 13:15 |
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Not sure. Máté would be able to shed some light on that but I don’t think he’ll be sharing any information for a while. As someone else pointed out, Budapest is about 6hrs ahead EST in the US, so he would have found out around 7:00pm his time I think (assuming his Jalopnik FB privileges were pulled 8:16am EST/7:16pm local time. More than likely he came to work and did a full day before being told he was being let go.
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Party-vi
> MUSASHI66
05/17/2016 at 13:16 |
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Kinja will remain as long as Gawker or their affiliated websites still use it. I don’t think there is anything to worry about here. Besides, any other blog would not be the same.
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Svend
> MUSASHI66
05/17/2016 at 13:16 |
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I recall someone setting up a new forum last year when things got screwed up then too.
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cazzyodo
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:16 |
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Yup...pack up shop at 5pm but your still warm corpse continues to publish.
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MUSASHI66
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:20 |
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Well, with a 100 million dollar lawsuit over Gawker’s head, I am not sure if Kinja will be around forever.
Berang
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:21 |
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I wonder if this means we’re never going to see the entire Lada story.
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Party-vi
> Berang
05/17/2016 at 13:22 |
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Not at Gawker.
Wheelerguy
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:22 |
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That makes it TWO guys we can hire.
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Party-vi
> MUSASHI66
05/17/2016 at 13:22 |
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Would it cost more to keep Kinja as a commenting/blog platform, or develop something new?
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MUSASHI66
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 13:27 |
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For OppsoiteLock? AFAIAC, Kinja can die in fire. Pre-Kinja, starred comments worked so, so much better. With Kinja, only way to understand replies to your posts is to figure out the context of the reply. Huge pain in the butt when you have multiple replies that in turn get a lot of replies too.
pauljones
> JDIGGS
05/17/2016 at 14:16 |
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I think that they see a lot more and realize a lot more about how things work than you do.
Oppositelock has grown to be rather large over time, but we are still peanuts compared to the Jalopnik main page. The Jalopnik main page, in turn, is peanuts compared to the titans that Gawker and Jezebel - each of which are big enough to make Jalopnik and Oppositelock combined look like the 90-pound nerd in the high school wrestling class.
When push comes to shove, it all comes down to money. Oppositelock survives, and may well prove to the Kinja equivalent of a cockroach in a post-Hulkmania nuclear winter, due to the fact that it has negligible costs associated with it. None of us are paid in any way, even as moderators. Sites like Jalopnik and Kotaku, while much smaller than Gawker and Jezebel, have at least been able to pull in just enough revenue to justify the cost of their existence - though now it seems that Jalopnik in particular is having a pretty hard time of it.
Should Jalopnik get shut down, the net decrease in revenue likely wouldn’t be much in the way of a hit, particularly when you factor in the costs being saved by no longer having to run the site.
While I sure as hell don’t like or agree with Gawker Media’s general approach to how they do these things, it’s hard not to understand what drives them to make the decisions that they do.
It sucks, but there it is. Welcome to shitsburgh, compliments of Nick Denton and AJ Daulerio.
Big Bubba Ray
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 15:26 |
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Dang, even though Máté wasn’t my favorite author it sucks seeing good people drop like flies.
1111111111111111111111
> Party-vi
05/17/2016 at 23:27 |
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Hey Vi - perhaps this is the time to organize an emergency exit strategy?
I’m thinking something if the lights turn off tomorrow.
Like let’s decide on a domain to go to if gawker goes tits up.
It would take 200$ to get a domain register and hosted for a year on a WordPress host. A VPS would be 20$ a month. So easy alternatives exist.
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Party-vi
> 1111111111111111111111
05/18/2016 at 08:15 |
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As far as I know, the exit strategy is for all the mods to play “Nearer my God to Thee” with car exhaust notes while Denton pulls the plugs.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Party-vi
05/18/2016 at 08:48 |
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I don't know journalism specifically, but I have always seen this done — loan officers or salespeople could be working a deal, get fired, and it becomes someone else's deal to close. I could finish a report for tomorrow, get fired this afternoon, and the report is still used. Doesn't seem odd to me, even though it is sad. Technically they could go onto his computer and use just about anything he was working on. Or he could countersue, then he and Hulk Hogan could run Gawker for the rest of time — slash Gawker and Jezebel, then make Jalopnik the flagship. The logo would have to be a PM Yellow Supra, naturally.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Party-vi
05/18/2016 at 12:23 |
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I can understand that at times, companies have to let people go.
But I would prefer if they are open and upfront about it... by first talking to the person, letting them know the reasons and that they’ll do all they can to help them find another job... like providing good references.
Then follow that up with a public post by the person’s supervisor and asking everyone to give that person a fond fairwell.
Maybe I’m just being naive...
TomMetcalf
> Party-vi
05/27/2016 at 16:32 |
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Been on vacation, just realized that Mate has not posted anything in a while and found this. Gawker must be preparing for the worst with the lawsuits. This really blows.