I'd rather see this on a blog or something. As I said, not many people read the comments in proportion to the rest of the site's visitors.

Then we should make our own website, with people who review TV shows for the fun of it and not the profit motive. Also, with blackjack and hookers.

Boy, I'll say. We should get a group of commentators to pick up episode reviews and put it on Tumblr or something. But then there wouldn't be a comment section to discuss.

It makes me happy, actually. This is what I was expecting.

Somebody else said he almost went to Grantland, which would have suited him perfectly. He's better off writing his vision of sports as a microcosm of evil in society instead of demanding an entire website do it.

He's certainly satisfying the former far more than the latter.

I'm in the distinct minority that uses the internet for pleasure, not for outrage. And it's never going to change because there's no incentive to do so.

That comparison between Daulerio and Craggs sounds about right. AJ definitely was a jackass but at least I enjoyed going to Deadspin under his watch, because it was fun to read for the most part. Craggs had no interest in having fun with his work and just made it Gawker's sports annex. That's why you had less funny…

The headline and the politicization of this site in general got me like

I don't frequent Barstool a lot, but I made that connection based on how sports humor is a big topic there and the fact that PFT Commenter made the jump from SB Nation to there. The comment section of Barstool hates his work, and almost all of the comments on his SB Nation columns were supportive (with the remaining…

That's normally the case, but Univision is a subsidiary of a far larger conglomerate, and I'd imagine they have money to spare. I could be wrong, though.

Unfortunately, your assumption is wrong. People who frequent the comment section here make up a small chunk of the viewership. People just passing by to look at an inane opinion about Game of Thrones are far more common, and their click has just as much value as ours. And that explains the shift.

In other words, they're phasing out a part of this website that's drawn people to it for years for the exact same shit that you can read on most websites. Lovely, isn't it?

I started reading Deadspin around 2012, so I can't comment about how it was better before Daulerio. But it makes sense- after all, the man did say in court that Gawker would publish any video of a celebrity doing bad shit, short of one fucking a 4-year-old girl. There was some mean stuff, but there was plenty of…

Adrian Chen (formerly of Gawker, now freelance) likes to use the revelation of the horse_ebooks Twitter account as an elaborate art project as the point in time when the internet took a turn for the worse. That was in 2014 and I noticed that it was angrier by then, so I gotta agree.

When did that handover happen again? I didn't bother going back around early 2015, but by then at least there were still some holdouts of people making dumb puns in the comments.

It really sucks how the whims of one person can change a good website into a bad one. See also: Tommy Craggs with Deadspin. That devolution was even worse- it changed from a lighthearted website that focused on the weird things in sports to an outraged-fueled one that posted 17 Ray Rice-related articles in a single…

I love how the internet is being homogenized in the same way that cable TV was a decade or so ago. Teti can suck my left nut, for all I care, because his tastes don't match with mine or much of the community who talks about things here.

I mean, sure, you could go to Slate, Salon, HuffPo, Buzzfeed, Gawker, The Daily Beast, etc. for vapid spins on current events, but why leave the comfort of your favorite spot for TV reviews? By the way, no more Adventure Time coverage, guys. The inconsistent schedule is just so hard to keep up with.

She did? Oh man I wish I had an applicable yet sexist term for this!!!!