The Real Buffalo Joe Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 On 11/1/2019 at 11:25 PM, Rocky Landing said: I will miss its annual "Why Your Team Sucks." That series started out strong, but got weaker every year. This year every single one had to throw in some sort of anti Trump joke. It's not that I'm a Trump fan. But it always seemed forced. The only thing I liked towards the last few years were the fan comment section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheElectricCompany Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Jon Gruden slowly turning into a strawberry was a pretty good take. It wasn't my favorite site, but they weren't afraid to stir the pot. I hope they return! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 53 minutes ago, Crayola64 said: replacement talent was not readily available. See: current state of deadspin. and blindly obeying your company is thankfully an old and dying way of thinking. Every few years or so this line of thinking makes a comeback, and disappears when the kids realize they're the ones who now have to pay the bill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackOrton Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 11 hours ago, JoPar_v2 said: Again, they made it a story to alert their braindead bosses on how annoying those autoads were to their customers. Maybe you think alienating your longtime customers is good business, but I tend to think differently. Deadspin writers were looking out for their terrible bosses when they posted that protest blog. Do you understand how jobs work? If your boss makes a decision that you don’t agree with, you don’t undermine them behind their back. The amount of children who support this nonsense behavior is absurd. 10 hours ago, Crayola64 said: Yup, and the company’s actions and decisions....checks math....cost them way more money. Not kowtowing to the whims of millennial crybabies will serve them better. They lost no real talent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 6 hours ago, OrtonHearsaWho said: No, you're wrong again. Deadspin was not sold - all of the former Gawker sites were sold. First because of the Hulk Hogan/Peter Thiel lawsuit and then because Univision mismanaged things badly. There isn't a singe analytic to support to notion that it was failing. Their "non-sports" stories were less than 5% of the content that was strictly on Deadspin and those stories got better traffic than the strictly sports stories. To say that they pivoted seems bizarre to me because it has never been a site strictly dedicated to sports. Magary is still one of the best reads on the internet and he has covered non-sports topics for years. Because writers of a particular website subscribe to politics that you don't agree with - and that's clearly the case - doesn't mean they failed. It means the content just isn't for you and for plenty of others and there's nothing wrong with that. If you don't like it, go ahead and go elsewhere but there are millions of readers that will miss it a great deal because of how it stood out from other boring & stale sites. Bottom line is that it's dead because a moronic CEO came in, got rid of people to install his own "talent", tried to impose his will for some reason and didn't think the staff would stand up to his idiocy. Well they did & even though the domain still exists and there have been some posts here & there - it's dead. Battling Ortons 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 2 hours ago, GG said: Every few years or so this line of thinking makes a comeback, and disappears when the kids realize they're the ones who now have to pay the bill. The "I don't have to earn a paycheck, I'm just entitled to one" mentality. I have no doubt most of the Deadspin staff is now complaining they're oppressed and blacklisted by employers because no one's "given" them a job yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorquemada Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 18 hours ago, GG said: The only way to save it is to roll it up under an umbrella of multiple publications, and cross fertilize the content. They already own a politics oriented publication. No need to cannibalize it with Deadspin.. Splinter died (deservedly) a month ago. G/O media doesn't really have a political site any more. Remember too that Splinter effectively replaced Gawker after GMG outed Peter Thiel, then released the Hulk Hogan sex tape. During the trail AJ D(whatever his last name was) made a joke while testifying that was pretty much strait up pedophilia, which horrified the judge and jury, who ultimately found for Hogan and effectively bankrupted GMG. Jorge Ramos bought them for pennies on the dollar and mostly used them as a vanity publisher for his own stupid ideas, bled money, and sold at a huge loss to G/O whose plan is to turn it into an advertising platform with some minor content aggregation. It's the best way to wring whatever remaining value is still left. The lesson here is, give a bunch of edgy leftist millenials a somewhat valuable property, watch them burn it to the ground. Get woke, go broke. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dorquemada Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 7 hours ago, OrtonHearsaWho said: Bottom line is that it's dead because a moronic CEO came in, got rid of people to install his own "talent", tried to impose his will for some reason and didn't think the staff would stand up to his idiocy. Well they did & even though the domain still exists and there have been some posts here & there - it's dead. If there was any actual commercial value to GMG, Ramos wouldnt have had to sell them for pennies on the dollar, after buying GMG for pennies on the dollar in bankruptcy. You absolutely cannot square the cold hard financial facts with your narrative that those were 'valuable' properties. The new management team WANTS the old staff to leave. They want to be content aggregation and advertising, not a lightning rod for controversy and a place for all the cool socialists to hang out, because frankly, that's a pretty lousy demographic to sell to advertisers what with their poor personal grooming and bad financial accumen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stony Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 1 hour ago, dorquemada said: If there was any actual commercial value to GMG, Ramos wouldnt have had to sell them for pennies on the dollar, after buying GMG for pennies on the dollar in bankruptcy. You absolutely cannot square the cold hard financial facts with your narrative that those were 'valuable' properties. The new management team WANTS the old staff to leave. They want to be content aggregation and advertising, not a lightning rod for controversy and a place for all the cool socialists to hang out, because frankly, that's a pretty lousy demographic to sell to advertisers what with their poor personal grooming and bad financial accumen Ok boomer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorquemada Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 1 minute ago, stony said: Ok boomer. Oh, another woke n broke millennial heard from! I'm sure your two word replies were a big hit on Kinja 4 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: That series started out strong, but got weaker every year. This year every single one had to throw in some sort of anti Trump joke. It's not that I'm a Trump fan. But it always seemed forced. The only thing I liked towards the last few years were the fan comment section. It seems that all of the GMG universe had/has an editorial rule where writers have to work oRaNgE mAn BaD into every article. Regardless of how you feel about Trump, it's just boring, and derivative work that I can find on a million other sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stony Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 9 minutes ago, dorquemada said: Oh, another woke n broke millennial heard from! I'm sure your two word replies were a big hit on Kinja It seems that all of the GMG universe had/has an editorial rule where writers have to work oRaNgE mAn BaD into every article. Regardless of how you feel about Trump, it's just boring, and derivative work that I can find on a million other sites Tone it down hot rod. Im just here for your socialist and millennial takes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorquemada Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 7 minutes ago, stony said: Tone it down hot rod. Im just here for your socialist and millennial takes. OK Boomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrtonHearsaWho Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 This topic really validates something I already knew - I hate the f*cking internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 40 minutes ago, OrtonHearsaWho said: This topic really validates something I already knew - I hate the f*cking internet. The internet is great. It's the people I have the issue with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrtonHearsaWho Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 9 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said: The internet is great. It's the people I have the issue with. Excellent point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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