45 CommentsVisitors to the Spec‘s website might find the front page looking a little lacking in content.
Rather than the first step in a makeover, tipsters tell us that there’s “some serious internal – and possibly legal – drama going down.” Spec editor-in-chief Melissa Repko declined comment on advice of lawyers, and online editor Ryan Bubinski, who oversaw the most recent redesign, has not responded to requests for comment.
– JCD
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@Redacter Because Bwog censors.
Posted by Lame : #15 · reply · track
October 17, 2009 at 2:12 AM
This kid [REDACTED] is a gaping asshole.
Posted by nice : #18 · reply · track
October 17, 2009 at 2:27 AM (from campus)
[REDACTED] hope everything works out for you
Posted by Amusing : #43 · reply · track
October 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM (from campus)
It’s kind of amusing how [REDACTED] took down all of the Spectator websites, except [REDACTED] own ( [external link to courses.columbiaspectator.com] I wonder if [REDACTED] and gang realize they’ve been hosting ColumbiaClasses for several months.
Posted by That site sucks : #45 (in reply to #43) · reply · track
October 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM (from campus)
That site sucks. I signed up a week ago and still have not received the confirmation email I need to be able to log in. And it is NOT in my spam folder. Way to go, [REDACTED] – if that’s your real name.
Posted by surlybastard : #47 (in reply to #46) · reply · track
October 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Does this mean that [REDACTED] resembles [REDACTED] from Seinfeld?
Posted by interesting… : #48 · reply · track
October 17, 2009 at 5:02 PM
[REDACTED]’s home page, which used to look like this (google cache): [external link to http://www.google.com] …is now blank: [external link to [REDACTED]]
i imagine that’s probably because practically all of his “what I’ve done”/ resume-esque links are to spec-related websites. he seems to have shot himself in the foot here!
Posted by oops : #50 · reply · track
October 17, 2009 at 5:37 PM
[REDACTED] seems to have wasted his well-intentioned cause with this tirade…didn’t know he was hosting Columbia Classes (which no one uses at all) on Spec’s hosting though. That’s awesome.
Posted by More on [REDACTED] : #51 · reply · track
October 17, 2009 at 5:51 PM (from campus)
[external link to http://www.linkedin.com]
@Conversation continues here http://bwog.net/articles/columbia_daily_spectacle
@Ian Malcolm JURASSIC PARK! ROGUE PROGRAMMER LOCKS US OUT. WE ARE ALL GOING TO BE EATEN BY DINOSAURS
@STFU. Spec people, I know you’re itching to break the story even at the expense of damaging your own paper, but breaking it gradually and with loads of misinformation in the comments on a Bwog posting is just not the way to do it.
@Hmm Anybody out there have an internal emails they want to share?
@/b/ Twat. Good word. I almost forgot twat.
So is anyone else wondering why a paper whose only readers are also its columnists gets so much coverage when some psycho twat d-bag decides to hijack the site and screw his own future over too?
This is more entertaining than the balloon boy.
@So confused Wow, Spec staff, this comment thread proves you all to be more self-destructive than Eliot Spitzer.
@surlybastard This Bubinski kid seems like a twat.
@hahahahaha im glad i got out of that hellhole when i did.
@nope staffers don’t get paid.
@Spec Question Do staffers get paid?
@Ron What’s amusing is how Spec editors come to Bwog when Spec is down, but I sincerely doubt Bwog staff goes to chat on Spec when Bwog is down (which rarely happens it seems).
@hahaha Bwog goes down all the time.
500/Internal Server Error (ie: you misconfigured something)
@Bwog You won’t need to do any reporting if these speccies keep it up.
@So... Now that all the Spec editors are in the room, can someone please explain what the site is being held hostage over?
@We want our 40 acres and a mule we were promised in January
@damn is spec on some andy kaufmann style prank or do they really think it’s a good idea to have an internal argument on the comments of a widely-read blog?
@Alum Who says Bwog is widely read?
@Damn, are you out of touch
@Actually His methods (extortion and blackmail) can easily cause more harm than good for Spec. His issues are very much legitimate, and there are many staffers who agreed with him in those issues at the beginning (he did not start or even organize this conflict, though no one imagined it would evolve into this). But his latest move is both extreme and selfish and has potentially destroyed the good in the original cause. Just him stepping down would have been enough of a gesture, since no one on staff has his skill capacity.
@Bad Mgmt “no one on staff has his skill capacity”
Well, that’s fucking stupid for Spec to hire only *one* guy. This place is filled with geeks? You couldn’t find an assistant?
@well He has “assistants,” they’re just not nearly so talented/knowledgeable as he is. Most talented web designers can get paid for their work, thus don’t design for spec.
@nice i really like the new design. simple, straightforward, and a little edgy.
@former spec editor this is lame of me to bring up, but does anyone else remember that bwog comment thread from the spring of ’07 in which we were all gossiping about each other? and it just went on and on? so much posturing and recrimination… good times.
@Spec-ulation! Ha Ha it’s a pun.
So, I speculate that they got a DMCA takedown notice due to a sex video between the Publisher and an Editor that was in a secret folder, embedded in a racist comment left on one of their fact-free articles. Now where’s my Pulitzer?
@lol so much drama for a newspaper that matters so little
@spec reader & fan well, this ain’t good – what the f is going on?
@Twitter “Spec website held hostage by rogue programmer?
37 minutes ago from txt”
http://twitter.com/arrsdrunktweets
@armin is no longer involved with spec and has no idea what he’s talking about .
@And you do? Please tell us what’s happening then. The truth must be set free! (Isn’t that what they teach you?) We’ll be your friiieenndd….
@So, I guess Armin knew what he was talking about.
@Armin Rosen No, that was purely speculative–hence the question mark at the end.
@Yes...and in fact Lots of these comments are purely speculative.
@Ooohhh Scandal!
@I told them it would only be a matter of hours before Bwog got the story rolling.
@Bwog is on it Dig up that dirt, dig it up deep
@Ugh Ok, who ratted this out to BWOG? Really now?
@I did. In the previous Vag post.
@Sounds like a SCANDALLLLL