I'm legitimately mad I didn't go with that. Or "flooded." Why didn't I go with "flooded"?

1) Block Twitter: problem solved.

yeah but its the internet. It probably would have spread like a bad case of herpes anyway. you kill one troll, 2 more take its place. And other mixed metaphor/cliches. lol ;)

I'm starting to feel like some of the commenters at Deadspin got it right when they suggested this had to do with it being summer and school being out. Once junior high starts, they'll be too busy with schoolwork to do this.

We currently don't know who is doing it. But yes, I suspect that the same troll who is lashing out at Jezebel is also lashing out at the rest of Gawker Media.

Warning: io9 article comments may no longer be safe for work. There is a group of trolls posting violent and/or pornographic gifs in our comments (as well as all other Gawker sites). These people seem to be doing this in retaliation against our sister site Jezebel, but you guys are the ones suffering. Sorry about that.

You are absolutely right, and thank you for pointing this out.

Except that it is her profession and she is not ashamed of it at all. Why should we instill that shame on her by saying "Oh we won't mention what you do for a living." If she were a doctor, lawyer, etc. would you say something like that? Do you recognize that telling people they should omit that is basically an…

Seriously. I see absolutely no reason for anyone to even mention what she did for a living because it should have absolutely no bearing on what happened to her.

The press needs to stop calling this a beating or an attack. It's attempted murder and sexual assault. The woman was forced to watch her friend get beaten, then she got beaten, stabbed, sexually assaulted, threatened with further rape, tortured, and the only reason she's alive is because he decided to go look for a…

this is horrible, i hope he can roat in jail

I gotta hand it to him, he sure knows how to create buzz.

Killer the dog

There is just something cool about being blasted into atoms and putting yourself back together. That is bad ass. Also, no one gives you shit for your blue wang for some reason.

Captain Marvel's classic origin is probably my favorite. Just the right combination of fairy tale morality, wide eyed wonder, and modern magic.

What's perhaps most frustrating to me is that people like myself would be more than happy to do our share of active moderation for free, but the Kinja platform fundamentally lacks tools that would enable us to act as moderators. There is no "report" function, and even if it was, there are no tiers of privileges. As a…

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…

Live action Anakin was actually powerful and skilled at physical combat, and even more so in arial combat, but the constant crying, whining, and tantrums offset all that, by a lot.

I mean, Darth Vader was a badass, but his younger self?