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…

This is the first time in years that I've actively wanted to link someone to goatse. Thank you for giving me back a piece of my childhood.

I figure Always can be to Jezebel's comment section what Tabasco was to Roswell in 2001.

It's terrible to hear that commenters could potentially be fired for looking at the website due to the GIFs. While I try to be active in comments (and honestly, that's one of my favorite parts of the job), it makes me anxious to think that people could get in trouble because I am writing and sourcing links instead of…

I'll be frank: I've been doing a lot of the behind the scenes complaining about this from my end because that's the only thing I can do. As some of you might know, I started out as a mod and worked my way up. I've seen a lot of shit, even with the old system in place (and not just from one site - I modded all the…

For the number of times I've said, "Please send an email to ____________," I can't imagine how many emails the helpdesk and authors have gotten with these images. Thank you to the mods who've forwarded these messages on.

Jezebel has always attracted far more numerous and vitriolic trolls and harassers than any other GM site. There are a lot of twisted, angry people out there who are particularly enraged when women speak in public. In the star days I would often flit around on Deadspin, Gawker, IO9, and look at their pinks. There were…

Because if it isn't gifs, it's stills. If it isn't images, its text. The gifs are a symptom of the problem — that there are no protections or tools in place to handle trolls, who are attracted to women's websites.

Cosigned. Hell, I like promoting good comments, dismissing outright nonsense, trading stories with commenters, even the occasional infuriating flamewar adds a little spice to the blogging routine. But it's just disheartening when we have to drop everything—the writing, the searching for new stories, the workaday Kinja…

It's been driving the readers crazy for months, I can't (and don't want to, frankly) imagine it from your end. It's remarkably ignorant and cruel to not acknowledge the difference between the attacks levied at Jezebel and those on other GM sites. I'm really glad you wrote this, for everyone involved. I'm sorry you…

To me, it seems this is really indicative of the way in which it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the Internet — women have to deal with so much shit, and so much of the stuff done to ~make the 'net free for everyone~ doesn't take that fact into account at all. There was an op-ed in the Guardian about that this…

I revceived a horrifying gif as a response to a comment a few weeks back and I was shaken all day. I cannot imagine what it's like for you guys to have to deal with these images day in and day out. It may not mean much coming from a random interet commenter, but I'm truly sorry you have to deal with this.

No, and fuck you. Jezebel should be able to post articles about whatever they damn well please without having to deal with rape gifs and gore porn and whatever the fuck else. Those are being used as a silencing tool, and your comment is no better.

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…

Wow, thank you guys so much for writing this. To be honest, the mods have been dealing with this on and off for years. It's never been as bad as this. But back when we had main page abilities, we were able to remove the content alongside authors and tech. It helped protect our readers, our writers, everyone. It's…

I genuinely feel for the community, and I wish more was being done, but IP logging is not a cure all. It is extremely easy for anyone with a base amount of computer knowledge, or hell, a dynamic IP to circumvent that. And 4chan will definitely circumvent it. At least if they brought back the greys, this garbage would…

I just want to write dude, not dismiss bloody rape gif trolls every day. It is the worst part of our jobs to hear from commenters that they can't discuss, say, a teen girl being great at Little League without some person boasting a burner account using the collective comment thread as a chance to harass people.

It honestly breaks my heart a little bit that this post even needs to exist — but the manner in which this has been handled (or not handled, really) by HQ is pathetic. Not reporting on it feels hypocritical, so here we are.

The last thing I want to do is give this giant and troubling waste of our goddamn time the acknowledgment that is clearly so desperately craved. But the fact that I must suppress my pride and bring attention to this in a plea for support from my own employer makes it all the more ridiculous.