Re No. 7: It may be totally fine to say "The Avengers sucked." But try to say "The Wrath of Khan sucked" and see whether others respect your opinion. People have a penchant for attaching to some things so tightly that they can't see the difference between criticizing their source of enjoyment and criticizing them.

Number 6 is pretty much a shorthand of Moff's Law.

It's totally fine to say 'The Avengers sucked.'

Grunting Works: playing tennis; lifting sandbags; removing stuck jar lids

I'd be okay with this.

This is why I'm against fishing. It encourages freeloading Goliath Groupers that are too lazy to get their own Blacktip Sharks.

I think immigrants are always stereotyped in a negative way — the techies are "douchey," and other groups are called dirty or lazy or [fill in ethnic stereotype here]. As I argue, we need to change the way we look at immigrants. That is a huge part of the problem.

If you can secure the funding, I can get the volunteers.

What are the hours?

You do a thankless job. Except that I think everybody on the o-deck really appreciates it. Even if we don't say so.

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…

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…

As a Californian who's taking 5 minute showers, who's landscaping is dying because the water is turned off, and who's allowing his beautiful vegetable garden to die (other than my wonderful, stubborn tomatoes), I have to say there's a small glimmer of hope in this: the California drought could be the thing to finally…

I didn't realize that PG&E was operating in that region.

Rather than littering the front page with mere contentious click-bait , I would love to see the io9 staff actually engage with the community in a intelligent and constructive way.

@Annaleen was asking about what kind of articles we'd like to see more of. This is a good example of what we don't want. Please stop publishing trashy trolling shite like this. There's an endless well of it. Endless. Please don't pull from it.

My brother, when he was 5 years old, said "we should drain the oceans, because they do not matter." He was very insistent.

And your attempt to control the flow of this discussion will, by itself, reduce the usefulness of the discussion. "Let's talk about XXX, but you better not say anything dismissive or negative". That's the level of discourse that most of us grew out after high school...