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Was the whole “grays” thing an attempt to cut back on all the trolling? Do you think it’s had a decent effect?

For example.

Jezebel has a troll problem and users have mostly been left up to their own devices in dealing with them.

I wasn’t gonna say it. I started to but decided to nope out of it, and am just gonna pop some popcorn and see what happens.

Cosigned

Did someone forward this article to Denton?

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…

Sorry, I meant that to be a bitter commiseration, not a condemnation. I'm sorry for the way that sounded.

Haruka was a beloved member of our dance community, liked and admired by her classmates and respected by professors for her intelligence and spirit.

oh god, I’m not going to respond directly to anyone who’s done it, because I’m not quite that bitchy, but (GRAMMAR NAZI ALERT), no one person is a UT alumni. You can be an alumnus, or an alumna, or just a casual alum, but unless you are literally plural people, you are not an alumni.

I’m a current grad student at UT, and I have to say that as a woman I am totally afraid of walking around campus in the evening. Any time I’m there after the sun goes down, I’m looking over my shoulders and holding my phone, just in case. Of course, that’s true for everywhere I go at night because I’m a woman, but…

So maybe you should consider changing the picture, at the very least? She mutilated the man while he lay dying - and if that had been a woman whose arm was shaved to the bone, no one would be making dog treat cracks. I don’t even want to think about how agonizing that must have been so I’ll hope he was unconscious…

It is something we wouldn’t do if genders were reversed. Something to think about.

Well, the rape of women that occurs every day is pretty horrible - will we start seeing Jezebel start off articles reporting incidents of rape with a couple of light rape jokes, maybe a whacky photo as well, to make those stories a little more digestible as well?

Agree but when women are horribly murdered by their spouses or boyfriends, commenters don’t crack jokes and are rightfully distressed and outraged. The prevailing emotion is anger and sadness, not levity. As it should be. Women getting murdered by domestic violence is all too common.

You do realize this is the same website that mocked an elderly Asian man who had a psychotic episode, and then the next day praised Cara Delvigne for her bravery in openly discussing her battle with depression ...

It’s not funny. And if this had been a women who couldn’t speak and was killed and fed to the dogs Jezebel and people commenting wouldn’t dare mock the story. Making jokes about a man who was brutally murdered is disgusting. The jokes and the picture are in bad taste.

I really have to say I think the ‘beggin’ strips’ joke and accompanying picture for this article are crass. These are terrible things that have happened to real people. I can’t imagine if a man had killed his wife in this manner that anyone on this site would be wise cracking.

“Beggin’ Strips commercials”?