Hi! We need to talk. Over the past few months, we've had a persistent problem with abusive anti-transgender trolls in our comment section.
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No matter how often we ban these people, they come back again and again, changing their IPs and evading our filter.
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We've had a lot of feedback from transgender activists on this, and we hear you.
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But we're a small team, and banning these people 24 hours a day is taking away resources we'd rather put towards writing news.
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Replying to @PinkNews
So get rid of the comments options altogether. No-one needs to read the pompous negativity of the ill-informed and bigoted.
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Replying to @anniewallace
Thanks Annie, we appreciate the feedback.
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