Exactly. He’s responded to me several times with increasingly worse slurs (and I think the spelling gets worse as he gets more hysterical) and I keep dismissing them.

Apparently, he’s a Democrat* who makes it a point to take the piss out of people advocating for trans rights on AVC because ::checks notes:: “it’s why the democrats lose elections. It’s going to lose us the house and senate next year.”

The least people could do is dismiss his comments but they want to feel superior

They’ve invaded everywhere. It’s terrible at Jez and The Root. It’s going to drive off long time commenters and I hope it fucking does. I hope this whole family of websites implodes bc of their lax policy on trolls.

Yeah I had me fun responding, now I’m just flagging his harassing posts and dismissing his responses 

You’d think by now they’d have learned how to deal with him, or how to quickly respond when he starts a barrage of hate speech.

This guy has been banned a million times and keeps coming back with new accounts over the last several years or so

Whenever he tells me I’m brave, I thank him. I think it’s throws him off 

AV Club, Jez and Kotaku want these comments on their websites to drive up comment engagement, that’s why they immediately fall over themselves to ungrey anyone shouting hate speech.

Maybe spewing hate like it’s your job is why people think you’re hateful

Wow. Thank you for drawing my attention to that. Looking at the sheer number of posts--I mean, jeez. I guess that’s what a troll is.

I stopped checking this site because it has gotten so bad, somehow I was sucked over here for this, heh.

Yeah, I wouldn’t say they’re “happy” being left alone. They are usually fine and end up sleeping most of the time anyway, but my cat would get upset with me if I left her alone too long and I would sometimes find her sleeping by the door when I came home.

If you want to play, the playerbase has migrated almost entirely to ET: Legacy, look it up and download that! It's an open source port, basically. Runs better on modern systems. And the populated servers without bots are all pretty much reliant on it. 

Stop giving out crappy cat advice, Lifehacker!

THANK YOU. I hate this misconception that cats just want to be left alone. Cats are social creatures who happen to be ok being a little solitary. But they’re very loving and get very attached.

If you want a pet that will be happy being left alone most of the time, get a cat.

I think they tend to hide behind the excuse of “the person who posted the comment being replied to is the one who has the power to reject a comment and send it to the greys!”

Lol no they don’t. There’s 700k police officers in the US, and 89 died in the line of duty, and 41 died in accidents, so that means 48 were killed by a suspect. So 48 for 700k, or 6.8/100k. The murder rate for the ENTIRE US is 5/100k, and a ton of cities and states are over 6.8. So no, cops aren’t much more likely to…

Man, this site’s a fucking joke if it’s calling out transphobia in GTA, but isn’t doing jack shit about actual fucking hate speech on its articles. I swear I even saw a response to me get shadow banned after they speculated they were keeping this asshole’s posts up for “engagement”.