I've been a heavy user of Jezebel these last 6 weeks or so and I've yet to see one of these rape Gifs. Can it be that miraculously I've managed to consistently avoid those articles where those images have been posted? I think that the reason I'm not seeing them is my Firefox addon Adblock Plus blocks those offensive…

I remember! And the pink comments, the grays, there have been so many systems that worked to end up with this bullshit!

It's on them to learn what feminism is before forming an opinion about it. If you're going to speak against something then at least try to understand it first and if you can't do that then, yes you're going to get laughed at by everyone. Simply looking at any major feminist forum would be enough to know what these…

Because anyone who chooses to jump into the middle of a debate without educating themselves about the facts is not anyone I choose to spend my time talking to. I don't do it with men because I don't have the fucking energy anymore; why should I do it with women? People I also don't argue with: birthers, creationists,…

Yes, I agree with all of that, but do not do it for free. Force those with wealth to pay for a valuable service if possible.

They would, but Nick should pay. He can afford it, and he's got a history with unpaid labor.

Perfect analogy. I also think a lot of Jezzies would happily serve as responsible mods.

At pretty much every blogging job I've ever had, I've been told (by male managers) that it'd be a death sentence to moderate comments and block IP addresses, because it "shuts down discourse" and guts traffic. But no one's ever shown me any actual numbers that support that claim. Does anyone have any? Not that I think…

It's terrible to hear that commenters could potentially be fired for looking at the website due to the GIFs. While I try to be active in comments (and honestly, that's one of my favorite parts of the job), it makes me anxious to think that people could get in trouble because I am writing and sourcing links instead of…

It's a money thing. Gawker does not want to spend thousands of dollars to make sure people on Jez feel safe(r). In a very evil scenario, Denton (great name for a villain, by the way) does not want to lose any traffic - even if it's rape stuff. There's no so such thing as bad clicks, or something.

I love reading the comments (I follow Jezebel, Gawker, and IO9). Sometimes they're as good as the article itself. As a casual reader, I've been fortunate enough not to stumble across any of these images in the comments. But reading and sometimes interacting with other commenters is a huge part of my experience on this…

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…

I know right? Want to post images? Fine, just verify your account first.

Yes, please! Tell us who to contact - I am willing to e-mail DAILY to get this solved. I had my first brush with this poster today. Because I knew this person was out and about as soon as I saw the upper half of the gif I knew to scroll back up and hit the back button, but it was still disturbing. I have the utmost…

yes! yes! yes!

OH MY GOD, THE STUPID. IT BURNS.

I know. I have been on the verge of tears since 9 am, and this was my first encounter with these GIFs (I don't know how I've been lucky enough to escape seeing them until now). The Jez writers and mods deal with that shit every day. Writing for Jez used to sound like a dream job to me, but now I'm not so convinced…

yep. I'm on it, whatever it is.

I WORKED SO HARD FOR THAT PRETTY STAR.

We used to have a waiting period - the 'try-outs' for comments and it took sometimes a week or two to become approved. I'm starting to really miss that.