Two days after Gawker Media employees called out their management for failing to stop rape images from appearing on the company’s Jezebel site, Gawker has addressed the issue.
On Tuesday, Gawker introduced a temporary fix by disabling image uploads in the comments below posts. The company went even further Wednesday. Jezebel editor-in-chief Jessica Coen wrote that the company has reintroduced a pending comment system, wherein comments by top-tier commenters will be easily visible, but those by others will not be. It’s a return to a system Jezebel used before a company-wide redesign.
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“Only comments from approved commenters — those who are followed by Jezebel — will automatically be visible,” Coen wrote.