Vanity Fair closes reader comments on Loeb story

Vanity Fair’s exposé on Dan Loeb drew so many “libelous, personal attacks” in the comments section of its website that the Condé Nast magazine said it finally just shut them down.

“Every time we took [the comments] down, whoever wrote them would just get a new user name and post them again,” said a spokeswoman.

When that person was blocked, he would try again. “I don’t know if we’ve ever had someone that persistent before,” she said. “It became impossible to monitor, so we just took them all down.”

The comments were posted under the Loeb profile, “Little Big Man.”

In one of the least offensive comments, all of which The Post has reviewed, Loeb was called “a petulant little boy” and was excoriated for firing his short-selling team this year.

“DB extraordinaire,” the person called jpenning wrote.

One Loeb defender, who called himself “Poochie,” posted a lengthy diatribe admonishing the Third Point chief’s detractors.

“Take a look at your life and take a look at your wife and take a look at your kids and then ask yourself, ‘Is schadenfreude the appropriate reaction for ME? Like seriously for ME?”