fingers crossed - I mean it is not like the group could not get a HUGE amount of venture capital to solidify the thing if that were the biz plan - har har har what do I know though - Hi Nik hurry up and let us take out the hated myspace for good - I mean Justin would be ready to give some angel funding.... so would a…

they should be able to see how long we've been on the site and let us send them a request to follow us. I've been in here basically since inception (of the site, not the movie).

Sorry to add a crazy thing here but could this balloon possibly have the lead to how Gawker could become a new "actual" social network? I always presumed that was the goal in the face of how say f and T had done their thing and meanwhile there are millions of us here awaiting validation and or interaction ability…

Thank you!! I have read/commented here for several years, must have started around 2007/2008 when I discovered pot psychology toward the end of my college years. I worked my ass off to get approved, then to get starred. Then we switched formats, and I was stuck in the grays for like 2 years. I stopped commenting for a…

I don't think that's good enough. I think you shouldn't have to see that garbage at all if you don't want to, even if you work for Gawker. I know from watching my wife and friends moderate other thriving communities that the whole point for a lot of the harassers is to harass the moderators. Letting people shit that…

Yes. This. All the way. Right on, Auntie K.

"The poorer ones that are going there for abortions, they heard that it was going to close, so they quit going there. They started going to health clinics because they thought it was closed and they didn't have transportation to get there. God is good."

People who scare women out of medical treatment deserve a special place in hell.

back in the days of Stars, I had one, but all the kinja changes moved me to grey (that and Grad school significantly reduced my number of comments). Being in the grey sucks. Those rape gifs though, I'll grumble about being grey gladly, as long as I never have to see those again.

Maybe a weekly thread where grey commenters request a follow. The authors look at the history of the people adking and approve all the non trolls. I don't want to spend years languishing in the greys either. I have a job and I don't have time to monitor the site all day do I can be the first to reply in hopes of…

I understand that, but again, based on my previous experience with this iteration of Kinja, my expectations are very, very low. It all sounds great, but a good number of my comments were promoted out of the grays before, and I never got followed by whoever it was that needed to follow me to permanently get me out of…

Excellent idea. I volunteer to be a mod.

Number 3 especially! You can't be a social media machine and cheap out on moderators! That's like being a restaurant and saying you only need one stove.

Aunt Kanye, I would star this at minimum eight times if I could. This is wonderful! (as are you, if I've never mentioned that.)

every time there's a pun thread, i join, but it's just me hysterically and manically expressing my pun love. i can never think of them in the moment. some people here are MASTERS tho.

I NEVER SAY ANYTHING IMPORTANT

Bump bumpity bump. This is exactly how it needs to work.

On the one hand, well said. On the other hand, I've been commenting here for four or five years now (and on Gawker, and on io9 and Kotaku for probably the last two years or so). My comments are usually reasonably well-recommended (the middle-of-the-road ones probably get twenty or thirty recommends, I guess?), but I'm…

Everything you said, plus I'd add:

sending you [high-five-cat.gif] for all of this. i actually went so far as to set up a "legit" account (this one) after...man, i don't know, like almost a year now of using what started out as a temporary Burner account but just became habit (@awwhellnah). the reasoning there being that "legit" accounts are maybe?…