Feminist website Jezebel gets deluged with rape porn gifs.

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86. I think it is rude and offensive conduct, but I wouldn't call posting trash on a comment board

"stalking" and -- unless the nastiness was directed at one specific poster -- I don't think any court of law would do so either.

The poster gets banned right after they post the nastiness, so there's no "warning" happening at Gawker--they post once, and get tossed. Then the poster creates a new persona and does the same thing all over again. It's rather like the posters we see here, over and over again, who flame out after a few dozen posts. They get their five hides, and then because their comments are so obviously trolly, they get the PPR.

It's a feature of the anonymous internet; if we don't like it, the only option is to do what a lot of sites are doing now, which is to force people to link in via their facebook accounts--and if they don't have one, they're screwed. Of course, that doesn't stop people from creating fake facebook accounts, either. It does make them go through a little more work, because that facebook is intrusive as hell.