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…

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…

Wow, thank you guys so much for writing this. To be honest, the mods have been dealing with this on and off for years. It's never been as bad as this. But back when we had main page abilities, we were able to remove the content alongside authors and tech. It helped protect our readers, our writers, everyone. It's…

I just want to write dude, not dismiss bloody rape gif trolls every day. It is the worst part of our jobs to hear from commenters that they can't discuss, say, a teen girl being great at Little League without some person boasting a burner account using the collective comment thread as a chance to harass people.

It honestly breaks my heart a little bit that this post even needs to exist — but the manner in which this has been handled (or not handled, really) by HQ is pathetic. Not reporting on it feels hypocritical, so here we are.

For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…

What bothers me about this is that we don't record IP addresses so as to protect these burner accounts for people who might want to tip us anonymously about a story. So the company is seemingly placing a priority on making these hypothetical tipsters feel safe over the safety of the actual real live women who write…

The last thing I want to do is give this giant and troubling waste of our goddamn time the acknowledgment that is clearly so desperately craved. But the fact that I must suppress my pride and bring attention to this in a plea for support from my own employer makes it all the more ridiculous.

Since absolutely nothing spoken from Cumia's mouth should be considered intelligent, I choose to bring attention to the deeds of an individual that is far more worthy of attention and negates this ignorant man's argument. Let me introduce Katherine Johnson, a black research mathematician who worked in the all-male…

Fuck this. Fuck this whole thing. Fuck all these people.

You say, "though who knew Queens County and Bronx County were so expensive? (Seriously, who?)"

You have to know this already, but: tennis balls for the comforter. No question.

Sure, run along kid, the grownups need to talk.

Cocksucker.

If you're not one of the white people who have lost their goddamn minds, I'm not talking about you, so take your #notallwhitepeople self somewhere else.

I would think so, as he hasn't used it lately (at least, not in public). Now, if he were to issue a number of statements claiming that he was using that term as a way of "honoring" African-Americans, chances are pretty good that he'd be having a problem right now.

The real point is that patriarchy robs everyone, female, male and otherwise, of the ability to be their fullest, best versions of themselves. 99.9% of us play a part in that gender policing. Women have fought for more free self-expression and have gotten it, at least in the Western world (when I was a kid, girls…

'...even surrealist concepts'? Is this not in itself a surrealist concept? Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, and present unnerving, illogical scenes, often with photographic precision. Don't these sculpture do just that?

The Veiled Virgin, by Giovanni Strazza (marble)