Great suggestions.

Read the comments on this post: there are many great suggestions for long and short term. But above all: stop asking the Jez staff to handle it. At this point, it should be done by IT and HR.

It think it's a balance that depends on what kind of website and audience you have. For example, my kid's school activities website has moderated comments. If we didn't moderate and catch IPs it would be a world of spam and work from home scams. Would make it more open help it? Not really. Now, in Jez you want…

I can't believe they make the writers deal with spam. IT should do this. You guys were hired to write, not to come up with IT improvements or deal with website inner workings.

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Good suggestions. The blocking of IPs that is discussed in the post would not work.

This is an IT problem and the result of a bad design. You guys need to tell IT that they need to monitor, block, and delete manually until they figure out how to do it automatically. Disable gifs or something in the meantime. It's ridiculous that the writing staff is the one dealing with this.

IndoorKitty below has a good suggestion: asking for IP if you have an image. IT should be able to do this and in the meantime THEY should be the ones monitoring and blocking, not you guys. This is a user interface problem, not editorial.

Bring back the greys. Recording and blocking IPs won't work, there are so, so many ways to go around that. You have multiple other ways to send in tips anonymously (wasn't that covered recently in a Gawker post?). By sticking with all these new Kinja changes to be more "open", "agile", "easy to share your opinion"…

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I agree, although these puppies learning at GA Tech are up there too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NONlkK…

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Seems legit:

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