IMHO, Jezebel used to have main page moderation that worked. You had a cohesive team of comment moderators who were heavily invested in keeping this site free from this type of crap and who were focused on keeping this place as safe a space as any internet site can be. Oh, and they did it for free. It's a shame…

EDIT: Meant for this response to be visible to the entire Jezebel staff, hope they see it.

I'm in the middle of this company tech thing, but I want to say this: this is exactly the right thing to do when people aren't paying proper attention to a real problem; it's not something I completely ignored but I obviously didn't give it proper attention, and I'm sorry about that; give me about 24-48 hours to…

This is hard for me, because I owe a lot to this company for hiring me in the first place, but what's going on here isn't OK.

Don't even, dude.

At pretty much every blogging job I've ever had, I've been told (by male managers) that it'd be a death sentence to moderate comments and block IP addresses, because it "shuts down discourse" and guts traffic. But no one's ever shown me any actual numbers that support that claim. Does anyone have any? Not that I think…

This is the first time in years that I've actively wanted to link someone to goatse. Thank you for giving me back a piece of my childhood.

It's terrible to hear that commenters could potentially be fired for looking at the website due to the GIFs. While I try to be active in comments (and honestly, that's one of my favorite parts of the job), it makes me anxious to think that people could get in trouble because I am writing and sourcing links instead of…

This jpeg was entitled "happy-kitten-kittens."

Thank you guys for addressing this problem. I feel validated as a commenter when you address this problem. I also have always wondered how hard it would be to be a writer here and not only write as many articles as many of you do (Isha writes like what—seven or eight articles on her days) but to also be stuck managing…

Jezebel has always attracted far more numerous and vitriolic trolls and harassers than any other GM site. There are a lot of twisted, angry people out there who are particularly enraged when women speak in public. In the star days I would often flit around on Deadspin, Gawker, IO9, and look at their pinks. There were…

Sorry you guys have to deal with that bullshit.

Yeah I think the cumulative effect for me is just to click less on articles—

It's been driving the readers crazy for months, I can't (and don't want to, frankly) imagine it from your end. It's remarkably ignorant and cruel to not acknowledge the difference between the attacks levied at Jezebel and those on other GM sites. I'm really glad you wrote this, for everyone involved. I'm sorry you…

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…

Wow, thank you guys so much for writing this. To be honest, the mods have been dealing with this on and off for years. It's never been as bad as this. But back when we had main page abilities, we were able to remove the content alongside authors and tech. It helped protect our readers, our writers, everyone. It's…

People have been warning us via GT when to stay off the main page, which is great but I miss reading you guys on those days. I hope The Powers That Be wise up and fix this issue soon. The IP address thing is sort of bonkers. They need to be able to definitively ban trolls—particularly with some of the doxxing…

It honestly breaks my heart a little bit that this post even needs to exist — but the manner in which this has been handled (or not handled, really) by HQ is pathetic. Not reporting on it feels hypocritical, so here we are.

Sometimes I think Donna's the best. But then sometimes I think Andy's the best. Sometimes I want more Ben, other times more Jean Ralphio. MIXED FEELINGS.