Anyone else stuck in "the grays" in the past few days?

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
11/19/2015 at 09:23 • Filed to: None

I haven’t bugged Gawker IT about this yet, since I’m probably on a blacklist for not being an outspoken ultra-leftist hippie, so I’ll just poll my friends on Oppo...how do you get out of the grays? It seems to have just happened over this past weekend. I’ve only ever seen this happen to me on a select few sub-blogs, but never on the FP.

DISCUSSION (20)

BrtStlnd > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:27

Just a routine check of your white male privilege.

$kaycog > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:28

Over the weekend, I couldn’t even comment on the FP and my previous comments even disappeared. Kinja had blocked me. Thanks to Patrick, I got unblocked but then my I was in the gray. Finally, Jalopnik started following me again, so I was out of the gray. I guess techs are “working” on the site causing some wonkiness.

Aaron Brown > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:29

I pulled you from the grey. Hopefully you weren’t down there for any good reason! happy commenting

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:29

You have to post several posts in a row consisting of nothing but yodels and seeming gibberish. It’s like phone-phreaking to get your call through.

Diesel > $kaycog
11/19/2015 at 09:29

Why is this showing up as grey again? Damnit Kinja.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:30

Also, Hippie Blacklist would be a great band name.

$kaycog > Diesel
11/19/2015 at 09:30

Liar. :D

RoboRed "The road to hell is paved with overturned Vanduras" > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:30

I’ve been stuck in the grays on the front page ever since those chucklefucks brought the grays thing back.

Ash78, voting early and often > BrtStlnd
11/19/2015 at 09:33

Awesome. Now back to my regularly scheduled First World Problems!

BrtStlnd > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:33

#graycommentsmatter

Ash78, voting early and often > Aaron Brown
11/19/2015 at 09:33

Thanks, Aaron!

Ash78, voting early and often > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/19/2015 at 09:34

I do a pretty mean 14.4 baud modem impression, but it’s hard to transcribe.

Ash78, voting early and often > BrtStlnd
11/19/2015 at 09:35

I believe that’s the exact kind of comment that will get you back into the grays...

I lol’d

wiffleballtony > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:46

I got banished to the greys a few weeks ago. No idea why.

Scary__goongala! > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 09:57

I’ve been here for 2 years and have been greyed on the other sites the whole time. Done caring about it.

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/19/2015 at 10:29

Fuck Yodels, Nutty bars FTW

BReLp7dzHM3ytYsE > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 10:30

Ask Justin Westbrook to ungrey you.

Stef Schrader > Ash78, voting early and often
11/19/2015 at 23:39

We actually had a few people email in to tips about being greyed out, so it’s not just you. Kinja’s borked somehow, it seems. I just unfollowed and refollowed you for the main page, so hopefully that works, but if not, ping the help dudes. I had no idea why one of your comments was showing in the grey, but you were “followed” for the blog.

You’re mostly harmless (AFAIK?!), so I’m pretty sure you should be followed, anyway.

Protip: tips@jalopnik.com can’t help much if there’s a legit issue with Kinja and the greys. We can help post pictures of bunnies driving racecars ( YAAAAS ), but not so much with the tech side. If you have not violated rules 1 and 2 of Oppo life and find yourself in the greys for no reason whatsoever, try reaching out to Kinja help. Those guys rock and are really good about answering back ASAP: http://help.gawker.com/customer/porta…

(Also, because it’s semi-related: I never pop people out of the greys who constantly whine that they’re in the greys. Please, if you’re guilty of that: knock that right off, too. Make good comments that are on-topic and worthy of getting followed. That actually works. That’s when we notice “why the crap is this dude in the greys?” and either follow you or in this case, investigate why you’re followed but greyed out for no good reason.)

Ash78, voting early and often > Stef Schrader
11/20/2015 at 09:13

Thanks, Stef...I hope one of my many ridiculous comments didn’t offend the wrong person :D

I didn’t want to have to pull out the whole “I KNOW RAY WERT AND MIKE SPINELLI!” bit, mainly because, uh, it isn’t true. But I have been around here since nearly the beginning, so it came as a surprise.

Appreciate the reply!

Stef Schrader > Ash78, voting early and often
11/20/2015 at 14:06

Haha! No worries.