{"id":991,"date":"2010-09-02T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/do-all-things-without-moderation\/"},"modified":"2010-09-02T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T07:27:00","slug":"do-all-things-without-moderation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/do-all-things-without-moderation.html","title":{"rendered":"Do All Things Without Moderation"},"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>As some of you have already noticed, I have turned comment moderation back off. The Internet terrorist who has been posring spam comments seems to <i>want<\/i> to force bloggers he disagrees with to moderate comments, presumably to hinder free discussion (with which comment moderation interferes). And giving in to what bullies want just encourages them to continue their behavior.<\/p>\n<p>So comment moderation is off, and hopefully no one will find the occasional easily-recognizable spam message (which will always be deleted quickly from the blog anyy, so please don\u2019t respond to them) too much of a nuisance. It is a small price to pay for being able to discuss things and express ourselves freely.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6718602466938723729?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you have already noticed, I have turned comment moderation back off. The Internet terrorist who has been posring spam comments seems to want to force bloggers he disagrees with to moderate comments, presumably to hinder free discussion (with which comment moderation interferes). 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