Yeah! Not exactly digging-yourself-out-of-rubble-because-your-city-was-just-bombed hard, or ran-out-of-money-days-before-the-next-check-comes-and-you’re-hungry hard but fuckin’ hard all the same.

I’m sorry that Kinja troll gregoryapeterson commented on your article and multiple people decided to respond to a troll.

There is a comment thread on John Walker’s other Indie Games wishlist article yesterday which goes into some of the possible logic of the slideshows; best thinking on display there is that the added time of clicking through displays ads for longer , so maybe it’s not a matter of ad abundance in space but instead of…

G/O Media’s owners appear to make demands of their employees that do not improve the quality of the G/O Media blogs. One of these demands is the request that some articles are in slideshow format. That is an example of an insipid employer request; it does nothing to improve the product, it just annoys customers.

I forgot that John Walker is a UK employee of G/O Media, not a US employee. Employees in different countries are under different contracts, so maybe his contract doesn’t tell him he has to do x number of slideshow articles a week or else face potential termination.

lol

My mistake; have a good one out there. :-)

Shadows Of Doubt

I’ve made this a slideshow because it seems the nicest way to present them, rather than an over-long list. No whining.

I was looking over the new contract that Gizmodo Media Group employees signed* and there’s mention in there that they have the right to block social media users who are harassing the employees, so at least for Jezebel and The Root the staff have some protections against trolls. ... the community doesn’t, but the staff…

Yep just flag the posts (... as if the Kinja moderators do anything with those flags, but that’s on them to do their job if they want to) and dismiss any replies to you. That’s all that Kinja allows us users to do about antisocial users.

Concern troll gonna concern troll

They’re probably the bravest fungus-resembling-a-human on this planet <3

Got another response from the troll, which I once again dismissed.

Said troll gave me a response which I’ll dismiss because Kinja allows us to dismiss troll comments. Good luck on your personal growth, Laserfacelvr

This Twinja user is using your article’s comments to spread hateful speech

Every so often I wonder why Kinja exists, and then hot take comments like the ones on this article remind me that Kinja exists for the hot takes.

Profanity: This is a one-way ticket to the figurative timeout corner of your employer’s mind.

Cats have been artificially selected in different directions than dogs have so they don’t socialize in the same way as dogs, which some people (such as the author?) wrongly interpret to think that they don’t like to socialize.

Someone on the Steam page has this helpful (?) feedback