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Anyone want to join me in pooling in some money to web scrape Gawker.com along with the comments for future archiving? Once it's gone it's gone. (and no Archive
by ChrisNorstrom 10y ago
Anyone want to join me in pooling in some money to web scrape Gawker.com along with the comments for future archiving? Once it's gone it's gone. (and no Archive.org doesn't grab everything, especially if it's hiding behind "click to load more" links)
I'm thinking of doing the same with all of NPR's comments before they get deleted on Aug 23.
- oldmanjay 10y agoI'll be frank, I would rather give you money to just let it die. Gawker isn't what the world needs.
- ChrisNorstrom 10y agoGawker is evil and that's why it needs to be preserved as a valuable lesson in propaganda for future generations. So one day when kids ask "show me an example of far left liberal extremist propaganda" you can show them the Gawker Archives.
- oldmanjay 10y agoWe have many extant examples of shitty gossip sites. the politics of said sites aren't really important in any way I can imagine. Beyond that, gawker isn't even far left. It's just populist. We have many extant examples of shitty populist sites as well.