I’ve been in the greys for half a decade now on IO9. They don’t care

The “Show Pending” button has been a massive demotivater for me ever since it seemed to stop working.

Thank you for this.

I got really excited about the Star Trek Ensigns post, and eagerly clicked on it, and scrolled past it ending up in the comments.

I also wanted to add to the voices asking for a better way to get people out of the greys.

Main thing, more than anything else - I very much miss the TV Recaps. Rob Bricken’s “This is the worst thing ever but I somehow just am compelled to love it” recaps of Gotham, for instance, were brilliant reading. Overall, I’d like to see more recaps/reviews of TV and film. They were what brought me here in the first…

I think if they fixed the commenting system in general, it would resolve a lot of issues on both sides of the fence.

Burner accounts really need to die an agonizing death and be scattered to the four winds, but people who sign up for new accounts should have a fairly simple way out of the greys. Possibly even using…

I’m sorry but I just couldn't understand your point, try as I might. Perhaps if you had composed a slideshow to better illustrate what you were trying to say, I might have had a better chance.

Copied from my survey response: Most of the mechanical features of the site I dislike are one that slow me down. For example, on most pages there is now yet another click before I can see all the comment replies (See All Replies (the new one), then Pending, and last Show Pending).

So I still don’t understand why I am still in the greys. I think the site would see more engagement if there was a way to come out of the greys (maybe after a certain amount of time).

io9 bookclub was great. I didn’t like all the books, but that’s the point. I was exposed to new things and found many authors that I now love, including Lauren Beukes who had a new novel come out this week. It was great to be able to talk to the authors too. A list of authors I found through io9 bookclub: Emily St…

My Indian extended family, in India and America, enjoyed it a lot. They treated it as a standard reality show, nothing more or less, that was fun for them because it involved Indians and Indian culture.

A lot probably depends on how well Tenet’s America-last approach succeeds financially. If it ends up making solid dough in the rest of the world and maintaining anticipation levels in the States, that’s good reason to try the same for Dune in December - barring a miraculous COVID-19 recovery in the fall that would…

It’s a reality tv show. It’s not there to educate anyone on how things should be, or give us a narrative that will teach us something.

Media:
2012-2015 - we love Taylor Swift
2016-2017 - we hate Taylor Swift, she’s definitely a Republican and she said she had a great year on Instagram, burn her
2019-2020 - we love Taylor Swift, her new album is a masterpiece and we’re going to pretend us dragging her relentlessly in 2016-2017 for the most innocuous…

I think she overuses prosaic detail as a proxy for genuine insight. It’s a variation on a hook, I get it, especially for someone who churns out the sheer volume of work that she does. I do think she nails it sometimes. “You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter,” “it turns out freedom ain’t nothing but…

She should definitely be persona non-grata forever, but that doesn’t mean her work didn’t exist. You can easily say, ”It’s great to have a woman centered work that isn’t from a complete monster.” or “There’s room for more than one Arthurian take that has a female central character.” If we get fifty versions centered…

Seriously, my first thought was like “damn, no respect for Marion Zimmer Bradley, huh?”

While I have no doubt that Gomez is less of a hack than Barsanti, that’s the issue with the ‘oppresion olympics’-style politics isn’t it?

Now you gotta decide whether it’s more woke siding with the Blacks or the Jews as the more oppressed minority, especially what with all that ongoing BLM/systemic racism/white…

HARD PASS