You're missing the point. I'm glad you're offended. I'm glad you're an ally. I hope you're emailing Denton at this very moment. But this is pointedly and obviously directed at women, and as someone who has been dealing with this situation for months, and moderating here for years, I urge you to take my word on the…

I suppose that is a tactic, yes.

I have personally banned you before. I totally recognize your user name and I stand by it. GT is a feminist space. It has commenting guidelines. Those guidelines are posted. You're expected to adhere to them.

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I think that it wouldn't be workable by definition. There's no way to prevent someone from making a new burner.

A number of reasons, including it being easy to circumvent, but I believe it's tied into the idea of having burners in the first place. It's not anonymous if their IP is being tracked.

None of those things are going on in my avatar, but thanks!

"No one is suggesting that you simply grow a thicker skin "

I'm not talking about IP bans. I don't think they're effective for a number of reasons. I am advocating for tools to deal with issue, it being taken seriously by the designers of the system, and a robust moderating team.

Just set up a throwaway account. There's a lot of people who set up gmails with (Kinjausername)@gmail.com. Easy peasy.

The HuffPo change is kind of recent, right? This has been going on for a long, long time. Its just much more visible now due to the Kinja platform.

Damn, Madeline, how do you know it's about women? Grow a thicker skin! Why is this such a problem for you? Yadda, yadda, cost of doing business, blah blah.

They don't if they make the place so unpleasant people don't come back.

Did you do something to deserve it? Obviously you don't think so, but we'd probably disagree.

Secretly, this is how I've always thought of us.

If it doesn't bother you, that's great. I'm not personally triggered by a lot of the things that these trolls put up here, which is why I mod. However, look at it from this angle — this is a major internet company who has invested a shitton of money into this commenting platform. A platform no one will use if its…

Did you report this behavior? Because that's how trollpatrol worked. You reported it so we could deal with it.

"Also, honestly, how can people tell the racist "trolls" from the average racist posters on Gawker Media? That place is so full of bigots post Kinja 2 that you can't see the bridge for the trolls."

For anyone else reading this thread, I just want to say that Steve is an absolute rock star. He's always responding to my emails and constantly on top of zapping this bullshit.

It was kind of a hybrid audition system. The original required you to have X number of followers. This was a bit later on.