Cross–kinja approval?

"E. Julius" (soonerfrommi) 05/09/2015 at 17:17 • Filed to: Kinja

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If you’re approved to comment on one kinja blog (Oppo in my case), do these privileges ever extend to other blogs? I almost never venture outside Oppo/Jalopnik on the kinjaverse, and pretty much only comment on Oppo, but I commented on that kitchenette story that’s trending right now and wasn’t in the gray as far as I could tell.

AM > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:19

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I can’t even get out of the grey on Jalopnik :(

E. Julius > AM 05/09/2015 at 17:21

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I’m still gray on Jalopnik, although I’m not very active there. Also, why does everybody say grey and instead of gray?

CTSenVy > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:24

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Did somebody star the comment? If somebody that’s already approved stars a comment it is ungreyed.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:24

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As far as I know you need approval on every blog/site.. I know I can comment on the FP and on Jezebel without being grey, but don’t ask me why :P

E. Julius > CTSenVy 05/09/2015 at 17:24

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No, it still has no stars, and was only replied to by somebody who’s still gray. As far as I could tell it never was gray.

djmt1 > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:25

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CTSenVy > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:26

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Well, then I’m stumped.

E. Julius > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 05/09/2015 at 17:27

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Weird. I can’t see any reason why the comment shouldn’t be gray. Whatever, no big deal.

E. Julius > djmt1 05/09/2015 at 17:27

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You get a free pass (assuming you’re English). My fellow Americans though…

E. Julius > CTSenVy 05/09/2015 at 17:27

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Me too.

KirkyV > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:28

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Generally not. The difficulty of getting approved status seems to vary with the specific blog; I got ungreyed posting privileges on Gizmodo after a couple of mild Apple-bashing comments, but I’ve been reading and commenting on io9 for longer than I’ve been here, and I’m still in the grey there.

AM > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:28

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I’m not very active there either but that’s mostly because my comments go unnoticed all the time. Also, I say grey because I’m Canadian, only American’s use the word gray . My computer tells me that gray is spelled wrong because it’s set to Canadian English.

E. Julius > KirkyV 05/09/2015 at 17:29

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Weird.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:29

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I got approved on the FP years ago, before I became a “member” of Oppo. The don’t ask me why part was about Jezebel :)

E. Julius > AM 05/09/2015 at 17:30

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Of course I get somebody who actually has a legit reason haha. It just seems like almost everybody says grey instead of gray. Which, strangely enough my computer does not count as a misspelling, even though it autocorrects “colour” and other words that are different.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:31

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Grey because UK BABY ;) I’m not British, but I usually use British spelling.. Grey, tyre, colour and so on..

E. Julius > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 05/09/2015 at 17:32

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I understand pretty much everybody besides Americans using grey, I just feel like it’s always grey and never gray though, even though Americans account for the majority of the people on here.

djmt1 > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:35

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Indeed I am. Maybe they just find English more enjoyable than Americanese. For example Knob Gobbler>Dick Sucker, Wanker>Jerk Off & Bollocks>Ball Sack. Hmm.. maybe this is the reason why we swear so much. Ain’t that some shit.

Klaus Schmoll > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:35

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There seem to be glitches. People who got out of the grey complain that they get greyed out again and such. I once got followed by Ray Wert so I had universal Kinja posting powers for a while, right now this only means that I am not grey on Jalop. With their constant tweaking of the code, these things seem to happen. At least that’s my theory.

AM > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:37

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Some people probably just find that gray doesn’t look like it’s spelled right. I have a mac so it (very annoyingly) underlines or changes everything it considers to be spelled wrong haha. I can right-click on the word and choose learn spelling though, I had to do that with the word Donkervoort.

E. Julius > Klaus Schmoll 05/09/2015 at 17:37

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Yeah the best answer I could think of was Kinja, because of course it’s Kinja. Did you wreak any havoc with Kinja god mode?

E. Julius > AM 05/09/2015 at 17:38

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Ahh the Dutch, of course.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:39

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You can use both grey and gray in American english as far as I know.. so I guess it depends on autocorrect and all that stuff. I know for a fact that gray trigger some sort of autocorrect in my browser, and I haven’t set my browser to any specific language.

E. Julius > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 05/09/2015 at 17:41

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Yeah my computer recognizes British spelling like “colour” as misspellings, but not grey. Strange that we would bother to have our own version of the word if we wouldn’t defend it with all of our honor. I’m a proud gray–user myself.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:43

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I like grey over gray and I’m American.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > djmt1 05/09/2015 at 17:43

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Brits don’t swear though, they just express a feeling.. ;) Bloody wanker would be pretty crass in the US.. but in the UK? Throw in some Cockney rhyming slang and we’re all set right? Me old china :P

E. Julius > jvirgs drives a Subaru 05/09/2015 at 17:45

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But why? I don’t care what people do, but it seems strange that this word in particular is so vague about the British/American distinction. No one speaking American english would write flavour or litre or something like that.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > KirkyV 05/09/2015 at 17:45

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I feel you. I was approved to comment on Jalopnik during the first grey period and was happy they did away with it, then ended up re-greyed during the most recent phase. I like to think I post decent comments can cannot become un-greyed, yet all the effing trolls are un-greyed........

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:46

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Similar words in different dialects but with different spellings will always be.. well, not controversial, but debated. I’m Norwegian, and you could argue that Swedish and Norwegian is just dialects of the same language... But we spell words different, the same word could even have different meanings.. so yeah.. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me? Bullshit :P

jvirgs drives a Subaru > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 17:50

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I like the way grey looks vs gray. And I do sometimes use litre, although mainly when talking about car engines. Certain words look better the way the Brits do things.

E. Julius > jvirgs drives a Subaru 05/09/2015 at 17:56

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Fair enough

Funktheduck > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 18:02

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You have to be approved for every blog and sub-blog ever since 4chan people posted porn in the comments of all the Jezebel posts.

To get approved you either need authorship status, followed by the blog/author, or some other wizardry involving stars.

MLGCarGuy > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 18:06

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Buy this and get authorship to any blog.

To be serious, Kinja is never consistent, I got ungrayed randomly on Jalopnik and to this day I still don’t know how. As for other Kinja sites, I think your authorship privileges don’t extend to them, but who knows, it’s Kinja.

Racescort666 > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 18:20

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Go into your Kinja account settings and select “followers”. If you are followed by a blog, then all your posts will be black.

MysticStick > E. Julius 05/09/2015 at 19:08

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Gawker could benefit from adding a bit of code that recognizes and auto-follows those who contribute to the site with regular comments and or oppo authorship. As is, the code is dependent upon an independent action for each member.

To require a person to be double-manually checked in case they might post porn is understandable. But perhaps they just have not thought about the oppo authors, and those of groupthink, the observation deck, and other cool places where dependable content creators like ourselves are already approved and waiting to be helpful across the gawker universe.

Someone should make this code change. Is there a magic wizard of kinja we can appeal to?

CTSenVy > E. Julius 05/10/2015 at 17:53

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I know it’s a day late but, I just commented on Jezebel, Black letters no like, star, or comment. Weird.

E. Julius > CTSenVy 05/10/2015 at 17:59

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Weird indeed. I think the blog I commented on is a .jezebel domain, so maybe it’s something going on over there.

CTSenVy > E. Julius 05/10/2015 at 18:14

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Really ironic since people being jerks on Jez is what brought the gray comments back.