{"id":31030,"date":"2016-02-17T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=31030"},"modified":"2016-02-17T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:15:31","slug":"on-obnoxious-reader-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/02\/on-obnoxious-reader-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"On obnoxious reader comments"},"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<figure id=\"attachment_31031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31031\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/02\/800px-Kaanapali_Maui_6017128482.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31031\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/02\/800px-Kaanapali_Maui_6017128482-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Somewhere near Kaanapali\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Ka\u2019anapali, Maui, in Hawai\u2019i<br>(Wikimedia CC; click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/jan\/31\/readers-editor-on-readers-comments-below-the-line\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/jan\/31\/readers-editor-on-readers-comments-below-the-line<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a major problem for newspapers and magazines and etc. around the world. \u00a0Toxic commenters dominate, while civil and substantive people avoid the comments sections because they can\u2019t stand the low level of discourse. \u00a0It\u2019s a major reason for the creation of The World Table:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtable.co\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.worldtable.co<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although I rarely have such problems on this blog, I myself intend to convert my comment section here to The World Table fairly soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Ka\u2019anapali, Maui, Hawai\u2019i<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/jan\/31\/readers-editor-on-readers-comments-below-the-line \u00a0 This is a major problem for newspapers and magazines and etc. around the world. \u00a0Toxic commenters dominate, while civil and substantive people avoid the comments sections because they can\u2019t stand the low level of discourse. \u00a0It\u2019s a major reason for the creation of The World Table: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.worldtable.co \u00a0 Although I [&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-31030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On obnoxious reader comments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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