when Gawker’s Adrian Chen (a former Slate intern, years ago) told the Reddit member who created those particular subreddits that he planned to write a profile about him—presumably exposing his real-life identity—the site roared with indignation. Most notably, the moderators of r/politics—Reddit’s main politics channel—announced on Wednesday that they would ban all Gawker links from their page in retribution (via Reddit bans Gawker links over Adrian Chen story about porn purveyor Violentacres.)
