This is the crux of the problem. The story wasn’t written to entertain, or inform anyone, as much as to stand up for a notion of editorial street cred in a suicide run that benefitted ... no one. Sanctimony goes well with self-righteousness. The makings of a sandwich, doubtless. #crow

I read Gawker because I love reading writers, the way the story and the commenters become a new, better entity. Your symbiotic partners collectively wretched at that article. And none of you feel sorry for the breech of trust, in the least. We love snark, schadenfreude, and grit as much as you. Why can’t anyone on…

See you praising Garret Camp here, for rescuing SU from eBay. If you knew what they had done to their community, the people lauded in this article as early adopters and bell weather users, Stumbleupon would receive similarly excoriating treatment. They destroyed us, to become a mobile app: slowly gutted our pages,…