You're one of the lucky ones. FiOS isn't available to the vast majority of households.

"flat, streamlined and sleek" = no individuality or personality = facism = corporate!

Actually, I'd prefer you go on and on about Shakespeare's satirical side.

Touché. I'd want my son to read this as well.

Any honest portrait of rapists—if it's more honest than what's come before—must by definition move us toward prevention in some way, even if it's not immediately obvious how. I'm horrified by these accounts, but mostly because they're so... I don't know... human, real. They make rape more frightening because they…

In a Gawker post earlier today http://gawker.com/5923046, one of our writers wrote: "The right to privacy, no matter how noble a concept in origin, automatically implies some level of guilt, embarrassment, and shame." What's your counterargument?

Hey- can you give me details on environment/browser? Thank you! [You can dismiss my comment as well.]

How the hell are you preparing to steer so delicately under 7 Gs???

You're right. We've retained friends and followers lists. The first iteration of Kinja doesn't include much functionality on this front, but we're working on this. Ideally, everyone will be able to see their friends' posts more readily.

"Whoever destroys a soul destroys an entire world." That's not exactly egocentric.

That's a possibility, of course. But users will adapt to the new system. As Joe wrote today, "Respond to the response, and you start getting the longer threads that are more visually familiar. That make sense?" http://gizmodo.com/5921328/?comment=50398022

For the status-obsessed, hierarchy does exist. The default discussions, the ones nearest the front, are those we consider best. If anyone's aiming for glory, he should write interesting posts. Great contributions will be featured more prominently.

As in real life, a series of jokes is as valid a conversation as any other. We're not trying to encourage overwrought exchanges ("Why yes, REV, I see your point and might I add..."). Just recognize that you guys are chatting with one another, and it should work the way you'd like.

That's a fair observation, but we're aiming for more conversation. Since the system works in a different way, it'll take some getting used to. You can get what you want out of it. It's possible, on an average post with a few funny if irrelevant follow-ups, to achieve something very similar to the old view. In any…