{"id":26799,"date":"2015-10-01T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=26799"},"modified":"2015-10-01T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:30:56","slug":"exciting-new-developments-at-the-world-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/10\/exciting-new-developments-at-the-world-table.html","title":{"rendered":"Exciting new developments at &#8220;The World Table&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26801\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/twt-logo-large.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26801\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/twt-logo-large-300x129.png\" alt=\"The logo of the World Table\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of you are familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtable.co\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The World Table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been slightly involved with it for some time now, on the periphery, and I actually announced it a few years ago at a FairMormon conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The World Table\u00a0had a test rollout soon after that, but the unethical and hostile behavior and the personal malice of some of the posters \u2014 to say nothing of their unprincipled cunning \u2014 was far worse than the principal designers of the system had foreseen. \u00a0(Having had years of experience with such malevolence, <em>I<\/em> wasn\u2019t even <em>slightly<\/em> surprised, and I had warned my friends about it. \u00a0However, they made the understandable mistake of assuming good will and honesty on the part of all of the participants, and the system wasn\u2019t equipped to deal with what soon happened.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, I\u2019m delighted to announce here that The World Table has gone public on Patheos:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/2015\/09\/alpha-testing-the-world-table.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/2015\/09\/alpha-testing-the-world-table.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rolltodisbelieve\/2015\/09\/30\/oh-hell-is-totally-for-real-really-are-you-sure\/#twt\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rolltodisbelieve\/2015\/09\/30\/oh-hell-is-totally-for-real-really-are-you-sure\/#twt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hoping that it will do well, and that people of whatever views who\u2019re willing to be civil, mutually respectful, and honest will find internet conversation more pleasant \u2014 and less grating \u2014 than it has been. \u00a0As for those who cannot or will not be civil, respectful, and honest . . . well, they may soon find that they either have to mend their behavior or that, alternatively, they\u2019ll be relegated to their own little self-created online hells, densely and solely populated with their own aggressively unpleasant ilk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In that sense, at least, Jean-Paul Sartre will have been proved right: \u00a0\u201cHell,\u201d he said, \u201cis other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Rochester, New York<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Some of you are familiar with The World Table. \u00a0 I\u2019ve been slightly involved with it for some time now, on the periphery, and I actually announced it a few years ago at a FairMormon conference. \u00a0 The World Table\u00a0had a test rollout soon after that, but the unethical and hostile behavior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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