We knew the blog’s rankings were in the toilet, but we didn’t know that editor Sommer Mathis would actually climb into the pot with them! Today she linked to several NSFW work images of black men having sex, and she didn’t initially warn her readers, nor did she really explain why the link was necessary. Initial reports indicate that several people got in trouble at their workplaces as a result.

Earlier: DCist Reporting Scandal!

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Commenters on the DCist blog are saying that editor Sommer Mathis has cooked a story, and those involved with the story are backing up the claims.

Mathis recently reported that The Flats at Dupont Circle condo development had evicted an unsuspecting tenant. She presented photographic evidence of a few boxes strewn on the street as proof, but she didn’t ask the condo’s owners whether there had actually been an eviction. Read more…

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Here’s a best of the best from the tip box:

Um, so, DCist is currently leading with an item about the future Georgetown Apple store. This story was in the Washington Business Journal on Friday. I guess Sommer Mathis is too busy to blog in a fashion so that her news is actually new and timely. What’s the point??? And she gets paid for this???? Can’t wait for the next DCist “breaking” news.

Thanks, and keep your tips coming! After all, how do you think Big Head DC always manages to remain relevant?

Related: DCist Doesn’t Want You to Be Their Guest

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From the tipbox:

More comment fascism from DCist… I guess Sommer Mathis can’t handle criticism. Maybe she should chose a new profession instead of stifling free speech!

Indeed, Mathis says within the post that guest comments are often insulting and/or obnoxious — thus, the site is limiting them. She adds that the DCist site will “probably” do away with guest comments altogether in the future.

And guest commenters are furious. For instance:

i am done reading dcist. way to go sommer! go back to writing drivel about how cops are the bad guys, and how cool shaw is.

and: Read more…

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She’s suffering through a midlife crisis, kids. And it’s scary!

Figuring out how to manage to have someone spend the night with you for the first time in one of those thin, weird twin mattresses is a right of passage in this great country of ours. Kids these days are soft enough as it is without schools choosing to coddle them into believing they deserve to sleep comfortably. This is an outrage of the first order.

Wow! Who’s she sleeping with now???

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