Our parent company, Gawker Media, is taking several actions to deal with the troll attacks on our comments sections. Please read through this post, which is from our sister site Jezebel and explains what's happened and what happens next.
Notably, we will be bringing back the concept of "pending" comments, primarily for new readers. We are doing this in order to keep trolls away while still letting civil, valued commenters contribute to our community with words and visuals—and ultimately without having to go through the pending queue more than once.
We appreciate those of you who have stomached the offensive imagery being spammed onto all of our sites and for reporting the offending comments to us so that we could take action.
Rest assured that we at Kotaku will use any revisions to our commenting system to still welcome in as diverse and opinionated a commenting community as humanly possible. We value diversity of thought as much as we strive for civil discussion.