I hear you on the Louise thing. Though Gene... I've known little boys almost exactly like that.

It was things like images of people beheading young girls and fucking the corpse. And other shit. For several months, as far back as 3 IIRC. Post an article about kittens? The troll posts graphic images of slaughtering cats and/or having sex with them. Positive post about young girls achievement? Troll posts…

Just remember, she's no hero, she puts her bra on one boob at a time like everyone else.

Only in that there are no real moderators, sure. But I don't think people post here expecting to become moderators by default.

It's funny because I initially thought the new system and site layout was supposed to be better for mobile, but unless you have a quad-core super-phone, it's pretty terrible.

The funny thing is that pizza came from Italy, and ketchup from China.

Yeah, the new comment system has a very "first" posting prominence issue.

Hopefully it will be. Ideally the writers/editors will now spend time following people who don't post bullshit spam instead of manually having to delete bullshit spam. So it's more work for the writers who didn't have to manually delete bullshit spam, and about the same for those who've already had to allot portions…

I'm not saying it's good, I'm just saying that that was/is their intention. Mostly because they don't want to hire full or part time moderators for whatever reason. Takes away from Denton's yacht money or something.

Real moderators cost money. Apparently they don't want to do that.

This new system is strangely bad on mobile, isn't it. I almost never post on mobile anymore because of it.

Kinda the idea is that the starred users have a responsibility as impromptu moderators to bring good discussion out of the greys.

Thing is, this kinda thing has been posted on Jez for months, until someone at Gawker decided to mainpage it. So, to wit, if Bricken did it, and then someone at Gawker mainapaged it, would we call Bricken a whiner. (Wait, we say Bricken whines about everything anyways, that's not a good example).

Apparently disappointing endings are reason for murder jokes. Someone should warn the Coen Brothers.

Ribs and vertebrae don't get fancy names, (thankfully), just numbers.

The Casey Hudson "jokes" got pretty bad about a year ago, for semi-obvious reasons.

I'm there every day. Just like any discussion forum, there are good eggs and bad eggs. But the bad eggs can get reallllly bad. I'm just saying that "idiocy" isn't endemic of one site.

Have you tried Kotaku? People joke about killing game developers when they delay a release date by a month. They joke about murder over a video game.

Those are clearly not human R9-10's . And couldn't be any other human ribs.

Unfortunately, this is the internet, where the more anonymity someone has, the less likely they are to have a civil conversation. Burner accounts and throwaway twitter accounts certainly do foster discussion, but not necessarily the kind of civil and constructive discussion your users and authors are interested in.