Fek, and all other Gawker writers... Stop with the exclamation points. "Truly!" You have to trust that your readers will infer the inflections you're intending with your sentences without jamming it down their throats. The exclamation points thing doesn't enhance anything on any side of this argument... it doesn't get your posts up faster and it doesn't bring in more readers. Thankfully The Awl does not do this... at least not excessively.
On Nick Denton: "A few cases recently where we've thought *way* too much before publishing."
Fek, and all other Gawker writers... Stop with the exclamation points. "Truly!" You have to trust that your readers will infer the inflections you're intending with your sentences without jamming it down their throats. The exclamation points thing doesn't enhance anything on any side of this argument... it doesn't get your posts up faster and it doesn't bring in more readers. Thankfully The Awl does not do this... at least not excessively.