Hey, in 31 years, your daughter can be president. (She can succeed mine.) I teared up during the little into movie. She makes me proud to be an American.

I’ve already replied to myself twice when trying to reply to others. I may just be jangled, or it may be Kinja being Kinja. Either way, no matter. :)

I can only imagine. Tonight is a good night. :)

Amen and well put. As a woman, I don’t think I fully understood how much I needed to see that until I saw her up there

Her speech, with its references to Seneca Falls and all the history that came before, was in perfect tune.

If one could coalesce all of the evil that ever existed OR will ever exist, it would most certainly manifest itself as this ugly-ass sub-human creature.

And this was something anticipated all along: not necessarily because of burners but because we eliminated our filters.

Ha. I don't mind. There were many people who had some hand in the slow decision making process over the last few months, but nobody had more agency or possibility to fix it than me, so I think it's fair to put my name out there as the most responsibility party.

In an earlier iteration, you had to have "X" number of followers to be an approved/promoted commenter.

As a burner account user... I like it for leaving as little a trail as possible. I retain the key and re-enter it when necessary. Do I want to use the same account I use for work e-mail as I would for a comment regarding the legality of recreational drugs? No.

Yes, we suspect this will help with that, too.

Honestly burner accounts should be done away with entirely. People should have their accounts linked to a Facebook or an email address with a professional domain (@gawker.com, etc), so that way we can see either people's names or where they work. Then if they post something terrible, readers can take it upon…

Will this be effective for all blogs (personal, community subblogs, etc)? I really think that this is the best method and appreciate your responsiveness.

I have to say that I understand how this was a serious problem for many many people ( I didn't at first but the more I read into it/heard from those effected I understood) but on the flip side this is a botched job of fixing the issue at hand if I do say so myself.

I'm all for bringing back the greys, with one condition:

Nothing really prevented a Burner account from doing the same thing before. I'm still sort of surprised they weren't being used myself.

That is so interesting. Why not take advantage of the full anonymity if you're going to be a total dickteeth? I don't really understand the legal issues at hand here, but doesn't that count as harassment? If they can be tracked, can they be sued (by, say, an individual commenter or author)?

I mentioned this somewhere else yesterday, but it should be here, too, even if it's just a technical clarification: most of these trolls weren't using our non-IP-tracked, anonymous "Burner" accounts. They were logging in using throwaway Twitter accounts as verification. So while the overall comment/groupchat system…

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…