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The first sign I should probably stop visiting The Verge was Nilay Patel's fashion meltdown[1] Then a few years later they DMCA'd a bunch of YouTubers making fu
by Andrex 4y ago
The first sign I should probably stop visiting The Verge was Nilay Patel's fashion meltdown[1] Then a few years later they DMCA'd a bunch of YouTubers making fun of a Verge-produced PC building video[2].
1. https://www.gawker.com/adult-website-editor-throws-twitter-tantrum-over-his-br-1697459743 https://www.gawker.com/adult-website-editor-throws-twitter-t...
2. https://kotaku.com/the-verges-infamous-pc-build-gets-fixed-1847632851 https://kotaku.com/the-verges-infamous-pc-build-gets-fixed-1...
I realize Kotaku and Gawker aren't much better reputation-wise, but a journalism outfit (The Verge) issuing DMCAs against people reporting on them rankled me much worse than the former two. Absolute hypocrisy.
- MisterSandman 4y agoI don't think those things are good at all (especially 2., that was a mess), but the Verge has hundreds of people working for them, and I think overall their content is amazing. Nilay Patel is... uh, a mood, he's probably my least favourite part of the Verge.
- Andrex 4y agoThose hundreds of people have agreed to assign their copyright to The Verge (Vox Media). They could be writing elsewhere or self-publishing. Journalistic reputation is important for a reason.