John Scalzi (owner of the Mallet of Loving Correction) and Ta-Nehisi Coates (wielder of the Banhammer) are also pretty vigilant moderators, and even on the rare occasions that their comment threads get swampy they don't stay that way for long.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - May 24, 2012 7:55:56 am PDT #6501 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
le nubian - May 24, 2012 7:59:11 am PDT #6502 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes. I wasn't counting the heavily moderated sites! I read those too.
§ ita § - May 24, 2012 8:06:14 am PDT #6503 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 has pretty decent moderators. They do it for free. Some of the posters are granted admin rights, so it's one of "us" doing it. Works much better than on the other gawker sites, because pretty much anyone who disagrees with me gets their posts moved, and risk be de-starred, banned for a week, or booted permanently to the cornfield.
hippocampus - May 24, 2012 8:17:23 am PDT #6504 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
ita ! are they still requiring a fbook login for io9?
Jesse - May 24, 2012 8:18:32 am PDT #6505 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Everything about this Fug Girls slideshow on Revenge (not including last night's) is hilarious.
Connie Neil - May 24, 2012 8:27:41 am PDT #6506 of 30001
brillig
I think there are people who are paid to post nasty things in the Yahoo News comments.
§ ita § - May 24, 2012 9:06:52 am PDT #6507 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Facebook, twitter, or...I don't remember the third. I think I'd just made a [username]-IO9 and said dammit.
aurelia - May 24, 2012 9:12:06 am PDT #6508 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Amy - May 24, 2012 9:13:26 am PDT #6509 of 30001
Because books.
ION, [link] . Discuss.
Oh dear.
Jesse - May 24, 2012 9:19:20 am PDT #6510 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aside from the ridiculousness of the thing itself, it just feels like one more way to overcharge brides.