I don’t want to see sick violent porn on this site either. I guess that make me a prude.
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Disable the ability to post images in the comments (or anywhere else on the site.)
End of problem.
You clearly haven’t witnessed it. This morning I opened up an article on Jezebel to find huge gifs of an arm being cut all over a post about the Littler League World Series.
The spam posts are incredibly graphic and they are everywhere when posted.
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That’s the point I think. The trolls at Jezebel want to make the comment section something that has to be avoided. Something unsafe.
I agree with all the posters above that think posting images might have to be disabled for awhile.
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Why the hell don’t they track IP Addresses?
As someone who moderates a forum that’s absolutely insane.
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I’m guessing you think all porn is sick and violent.
Hardly. But there is that line, it’s not hard for most to understand. Dismemberment, gore, blood, all that kind of stuff? I don’t want to see, especially on websites where it is only there to derail a discussion. See the commenter above for a good description of what they are talking about.
Sounds like 4chan found a loophole and going ham with it.
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One last thing, I think Jezebel is fairly sex positive, I don’t read them regularly but that’s the impression I get. Funny that they are the ones targeted with garbage, isn’t it?
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This is an interesting story because the reason why the problem exists is because Gawker intentionally does not track their users. That’s often celebrated as a good thing (and helps cut down on ridiculous subpoenas). It does have an ugly side though, see 4chan for an example.
A possible solution here is to have required moderation of new users’ comments (for X days, Y comments or some combination of both). After they have been deemed a non-troll that can go away. No need to track IPs, but much less prone to trolls.
It doesn’t belong where it is not welcome.
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