J.K. Trotter's saved articles

I'm in the middle of this company tech thing, but I want to say this: this is exactly the right thing to do when people aren't paying proper attention to a real problem; it's not something I completely ignored but I obviously didn't give it proper attention, and I'm sorry about that; give me about 24-48 hours to… Read more

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… Read more

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. Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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. Read more

Your geometry teacher's work is done. Read more

"I'll take 'Things Heard On Calvary Hill' for $200, Alex." Read more

So, essentially, Gawker writers' attitude toward Jezebel writers somewhat reflects Gawker commenters' attitude toward Jezebel commenters? Read more

ahhhh awesome for her! For some reason I was thinking that had happened already and was getting nervous with no new posts and little activity from her! I will have to tweet good luck to her, not that she needs it! Read more

Gabby Bluestone? She's taking the bar! In like two days!! Cross your fingers for her!!! Read more

Where did Gabby go, no article from her in forver...hopefully she did not move on (maybe this is better suited to Max Read) since I she is Gawker... Read more