That would be excellent. I've been around here for years now as well, and am obviously still in the greys. I guess it's effective, because I definitely do feel less inclined to post when I know that nobody will read it.

It's OK to be gray!

On greys:

When will you be looking at more commenters to approve? I've been a dedicated member of the site (as have many others) but have never been approved despite many upvotes and all the like. I think if you switch back to this system, you have to start actively looking for new commenters to star or you have to REGULARLY…

I was never a star and I don't even care. Thank you guys. Onward my gray comrades!

yay! i'll happily go back to being ignored in the greys if it means no more terrible gifs everywhere :D

Said it on Facebook this morning, saw it a lot in the Gawker comments - time to away with internet anonymity. No censorship, just post whatever you want to post with your first and last name next to it, linked to your Facebook account or email address. If you think it's okay to taunt a grieving 25-year-old with…

Cops in regular uniforms, helmets and night sticks handled way worse than this in the race riots of the 60's. Modern crowd control is armor, shields and tear gas. The point here is these guys look like they are going to war, with tons of spare ammo and tactical killing gear. They don't look like they are there to…

Awful, terrble news. He struggled with depression & addiction for years. More proof that mental illness does not discriminate. He had the world's adoration, a loving family & resources far beyond what the average person has and still lost the battle. I hope that someday we treat mental illness as the devastating thing…

His wife released a very nice statement:

Why do you dudes love to pretend to be women? No one will answer this for my investigation.

I agree. The Gawker sites used to have some of the most wittiest, intelligent commentary on the Internet (where finding intelligent commentators is hard to find). I used to laugh out loud at several of the Gawker/Deadspin/Jezebel comments because they were funny, and intelligent. With the new commenting system,…

To me, it seems this is really indicative of the way in which it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the Internet — women have to deal with so much shit, and so much of the stuff done to ~make the 'net free for everyone~ doesn't take that fact into account at all. There was an op-ed in the Guardian about that this…

I used to reply quite a bit in Jezebel, but this latest iteration of Kinja has been a troll fest. It's not even worth it anymore, so I rarely post. I'm probably not the only one.

No, and fuck you. Jezebel should be able to post articles about whatever they damn well please without having to deal with rape gifs and gore porn and whatever the fuck else. Those are being used as a silencing tool, and your comment is no better.

I genuinely feel for the community, and I wish more was being done, but IP logging is not a cure all. It is extremely easy for anyone with a base amount of computer knowledge, or hell, a dynamic IP to circumvent that. And 4chan will definitely circumvent it. At least if they brought back the greys, this garbage would…

There's a point to Kinja? Because it's failing miserably. Comments around here were 200x better a couple years ago. Old articles popping up make it all too obvious.

And why do you want people to send in tips on a public Comment system? Don't we have e-mail for that sort of thing?

For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…

There's no irony, halfwit. The old Democratic party of the south was racist. LBJ took the national party in a different direction in 1964 when he signed the Civil Rights Act and subsequently signed several other important pieces of civil rights legislation.