Gawker’s new, unmoderated commenting system surely seems to be a success! These gems are currently the “featured” comment thread in a story about terrible, brutal violence at New York’s Rikers Island jail. I wonder if this was Denton’s goal all along, to turn the comments into something worse than Fox News. 

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