The best one I saw recently was a commenter blaming Obummer for how the Colorado GOP caucuses. It has zero to do with Obama, but it's still his fault.

You’d be AMAZED at some of the things Obama is secretly responsible for!

its fine when it’s riff raff, but it becomes an issue when people start getting doxed and really badly harassed. the internet man....

:)

For example.

a crossword puzzle doesn’t need the same type of vigilance that an article about rape does

The comments on anything woman or race related are guaranteed to be a dumpster fire. Its amazing how out of whack the editorial stance and the readership are.

It’s odd how the most benign of articles can still drum up the vilest of comments really rapidly.

So, does Jezebel/Gawker have the means to implement something similar here? This sounds like a thing that everyone here could benefit from, what with the preponderance of trolls. I thought you guys did away with the mod team when you switched to Kinja, but I could be wrong (?). Leaving us to our own devices has caused…

And the Daily Mail will be a civil place when hell freezes over. Pretty sure that’s contrary to their mission statement.

The Guardian comments can be surprisingly vile ... not funny vile, like here, or cutting, just really really awful, like clever people with no sense of humor who only know how to be shitty.

AAAANND the Daily Mail is following suit! (jk)

Ummmm the best thing ever for this 41 exhausted Midwesterner who sometimes needs verification that her life choices are better than they could have been?

Everything I’ve seen/heard about SUR reminds me of what a friend said about West Edmonton Mall just after it opened - “It’s what you’d get if you had boatloads of cash, but your idea of “classy” was gleaned solely from episodes of Dynasty & the occasional music video.

what did I just watch

Have him after I’m done boo

You don’t need to. Just bask in it. Don’t ask questions. It just is.

Doesn’t matter. Some things are better without an explanation.

My favorite thing about American Idol is that I have only ever seen one episode and it was the one where the narcissistic, embarrassingly stereotypical jock who had some natural vocal talent unfortunately got cast in our spring musical every year ended up crying. After he sang they asked him what he would do with one…

Who do you guys think watches (er, watched) that show? Middle aged and elderly white women. That's who's voting. Not "America".