Yeah. Kinja isn't great but at least it put everyone on a more level playing field. Also, as someone on another thread said, "I think the thing that bothers me the most is the idea that my contributions will be in a giant cesspool with the spamming assholes."

Dude, I am from Texas, raised in South Carolina, and currently live in Louisiana. I hate the idea that an entire state is just to be written off, or that people should move, or whatever. Everywhere has its crazies - you don't have to tell me twice! :)

Jessica, I am so proud of you for standing up for your site, your authors and your commenting community.

I tend to joke about a lot on the boards. Nothing too offensive that would get me banned/dismissed. But now I'm afraid my humor may keep me there.

I got unfollowed by Jezebel and back in to the grays shortly before the new commenting system happened and I was irrationally bummed. Not sure why it happened, but I had been unnecessarily snarky on a post so maybe that was it. It was also right after the meowmeowbeanz episode of Community aired and I felt like a…

I said this in another thread, but I use a burner account not because I am trolling but because I am AFRAID of those kinds of people being able to hack into the Gawker (or other blog) system and retrieve my personal information if I happen to say something that pisses them off one day. (I've said stuff on here I…

the problem with the old system is that the writers were supposed to be doing that but they were all too lazy. Hopefully this time it will be different!

Agreed. Perhaps could be interesting if there were an automatic starring after X number of upvotes over time, if keeping on top of commenters to move out of greys is difficult for moderators. I have been here for 3 years now, have had many upvotes, but will be in the greys come the change....

And most people won't. Which means that anything that the folks at Jezebel don't already like won't be seen.

I guess the io9 .gif party is going the way of the dinosaur*. Or it will just totally suck.

Dam...back to the grey I go... :(

Okay. So can we also do a thing where if a commenter's history clearly shows a commitment to thoughtful commentary, they get approved by GM? Because this grey nonsense is really tiring to those of us who comment regularly, and whenever kinja updates, have to prove ourselves time and time again like we're trying to…

None of us are. It's ridiculous

Who are we kidding. you're never getting out of the gray anyways.

Yes it did. The other half of the anon-burner coin that everyone here is overlooking was that far more people don't and won't have any kind of social media account, so back before when GM tried to do forced social media log-ins/tie-ins the page view numbers dropped percent-wise like flies, glued to a brick, chucked…

Denton wants the magic click money, not some social club where everyone is nice and always agrees with each other because you can't speak unless someone lets you in. Ain't no money in that.

Absolutely - as someone who was involuntarily outed because of something I posted on the Internet, I feel that removing any chance at anonymity forces a lose-lose choice: Being left out of the discussion or suffering unwanted consequences from the IRL assholes.

As many others have noted, blocking IP addresses is not the answer. There are simply too many ways to change or hide your IP that this is impractical. In fact, almost any tool based in technology isn't going to work - someone will find a way around it eventually. All it does is leave development teams scrambling to…

Direct would be ringing management up and talking to them....directly.

How about you do your job instead of reading websites at your place of employment?