R.I.P. thedirty

[onomatopoeia]

It looks like thedirty(dot)com has gone tits up. It's been five weeks now since the site was online, and the pre-2017 gossip archives are gone, as well.

I had a great time posting in the comments there for about six weeks from late November, 2016 until the first week of January, 2017, when nik richie was still hosting.

Later in January, 2017, the site went way downhill for several months, trying to be a clone of TMZ. Around that same time, the site was banned from the disqus message boards. All pre-2017 stories were moved to an archive, but, (unfortunately), all of the comments were purged.

thedirty had a brief resurgence near the end of 2017, before nik sold the site. I saw on nik's wikipedia bio page that he had started to develop symptoms of multiple sclerosis in 2015, so that likely had some impact on his decision to move on. I wrote a couple of stories in late 2017 about people I've never met which made the front page.

The site went steadily downhill after that, and I don't think any comments were published in the past five years or so. They were frequently the best part of the site. disqus boards have a voting system, so the top-rated comments appear at the top, as opposed to in chronological order, as is done here.

 

[sweetiepieexo]

It looks like thedirty(dot)com has gone tits up. It's been five weeks now since the site was online, and the pre-2017 gossip archives are gone, as well.

I had a great time posting in the comments there for about six weeks from late November, 2016 until the first week of January, 2017, when nik richie was still hosting.

Later in January, 2017, the site went way downhill for several months, trying to be a clone of TMZ. Around that same time, the site was banned from the disqus message boards. All pre-2017 stories were moved to an archive, but, (unfortunately), all of the comments were purged.

thedirty had a brief resurgence near the end of 2017, before nik sold the site. I saw on nik's wikipedia bio page that he had started to develop symptoms of multiple sclerosis in 2015, so that likely had some impact on his decision to move on. I wrote a couple of stories in late 2017 about people I've never met which made the front page.

The site went steadily downhill after that, and I don't think any comments were published in the past five years or so. They were frequently the best part of the site. disqus boards have a voting system, so the top-rated comments appear at the top, as opposed to in chronological order, as is done here.

Thank god. That site was absolutely brutal and disgusting. It was just full of people bashing people they dated , escorts theyve seen or people just making up lies to boost their ego.

In my opinion?? Good riddance. They won't be missed.

 

[Insidious Von]

Is this like the Schwarzenegger scandal?

At the time that Arnold and Maria Shriver were going through divorce, The Onion published a piece about Arnold having an affair with a vacuum cleaner.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

I saw on nik's wikipedia bio page that he had started to develop symptoms of multiple sclerosis in 2015

Karma

 

[Indy-Escorts]

Thank god. That site was absolutely brutal and disgusting. It was just full of people bashing people they dated , escorts theyve seen or people just making up lies to boost their ego.

In my opinion?? Good riddance. They won't be missed.

It was a vile site. With no moderation and people were encouraged to lie and dox as many people as possible.

I completely agree. Good Riddance, and I hope the people who negatively participated on that site get their karma bill in the mail.

 

[K Douglas]

It was a vile site. With no moderation and people were encouraged to lie and dox as many people as possible.

I completely agree. Good Riddance, and I hope the people who negatively participated on that site get their karma bill in the mail.

Vile is the perfect adjective.

 

[escortsxxx]

Never heard of it I hope it's archived. Good or bad history should be preserved

 

[mandrill]

Vile is the perfect adjective.

It was a disgusting site where escorts were doxxed and outed.

 

[SexB]

I have to agree with everyone here, good riddance.

There are a couple review boards I'd like to see follow in its footsteps.

 

[sweetiepieexo]

Never heard of it I hope it's archived. Good or bad history should be preserved

Outing & exposing peoples real lives should not be archived. I think people tend to forget these escorts have a life outside of escorting.

The dirty was a disgusting site who allowed anybody to post anything without any actual facts. I remember a couple of my friends were outed on that site and their lives were never the same. Lots of people posted lies about people they didnt like & the owner of the site allowed it because he was a scumbag himself.

How would you feel if you were outed on a site where people could just openly talk shit ?

 

[DesRicardo]

That was a messy, messy website during it's peak.

It's crazy how he was able to justify himself legally.

 

[Fun For All]

I thought of it as more of a revenge site…you could post shit about your guy if he fucked around on you and post shit about the girl he fucked around with, I say it that way because it seemed to me that most of the posts were made by women.

I bet that site had a lot of legal action taken against them and probably couldn’t afford the legal bills

 

[Fun For All]

Outing & exposing peoples real lives should not be archived. I think people tend to forget these escorts have a life outside of escorting.

The dirty was a disgusting site who allowed anybody to post anything without any actual facts. I remember a couple of my friends were outed on that site and their lives were never the same. Lots of people posted lies about people they didnt like & the owner of the site allowed it because he was a scumbag himself.

How would you feel if you were outed on a site where people could just openly talk shit ?

A website where people make up shit about others and out their real identity…I know of one and so do you.

 

[onomatopoeia]

I thought of it as more of a revenge site…you could post shit about your guy if he fucked around on you and post shit about the girl he fucked around with, I say it that way because it seemed to me that most of the posts were made by women.

I bet that site had a lot of legal action taken against them and probably couldn’t afford the legal bills

The 'news' stories on thedirty weren't written by the site. They were submitted by individuals, and thedirty just posted them, and added or allowed comments.

'Hate literature' laws apply only to 'designated groups', not to individual persons.

Any legal action taken by a 'victim' of an expose published on thedirty would be a civil matter in which the author or the allegations would be potentially liable, legally, not the publisher, and the site would not be obliged to provide details about the author or the story, unless instructed by a Judge.

 

[Indy-Escorts]

People who use loop-holes like that in order to victimize others, and those who take enjoyment from witnessing it, have some serious issues.

 

[Fun For All]

The 'news' stories on thedirty weren't written by the site. They were submitted by individuals, and thedirty just posted them, and added or allowed comments.

'Hate literature' laws apply only to 'designated groups', not to individual persons.

Any legal action taken by a 'victim' of an expose published on thedirty would be a civil matter in which the author or the allegations would be potentially liable, legally, not the publisher, and the site would not be obliged to provide details about the author or the story, unless instructed by a Judge.

I don’t think “The Dirty” is off the hook for providing the platform…it could be viewed as libel.