{"id":21761,"date":"2012-08-01T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=21761"},"modified":"2012-08-02T11:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T16:31:41","slug":"dam-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/dam-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was on a Sunstone panel about the bloggernacle last week and because of that I\u2019ve been thinking about how I should be moderating comments.<\/p>\n

When I first started as a guest at T&S, some of the permas made it clear that they did not agree with everything I had to say. That\u2019s fine; I don\u2019t agree with everything I say. But they brought me on board anyway, and I claim that same freedom of not agreeing with every single thing that other people post on the site. I think of it as being akin the 11th Article of Faith, but for blogging. It is a privilege to both post and comment on the site. Because I appreciate that for myself, I don\u2019t want to hinder others in their exercise of that same privilege.<\/p>\n

So what should I do about completely off-topic or mean spirited comments? Or comments that appear thoughtless because they ignore the conventions of basic grammar? When I post, I am responsible for moderating my own thread, but I need to respect and enforce the commenting policy<\/a> of T&S. As a relatively new blogger, I\u2019m still learning to do this. As you know, I have not always been successful.<\/p>\n

\"\"I would prefer to let the rude, random, or off-topic comments to drop like a rock in a stream, and allow\u00a0the conversation continue to run past it. Too much attention to those awkward stones just adds to them and makes a dam, and I seriously\u00a0don\u2019t want to have to bring out the dynamite and blow it away. But a laissez faire attitude could easily allow threads to devolve into an anarchic free-for-all that could actually discourage conversation rather than foster it.<\/p>\n

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So what advice do you have for me? Is it reasonable to hope we all could ignore damming comments? Or should they be immediately and publicly condemned?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too much attention to those awkward stones just adds to them and makes a dam, and I seriously don\u2019t want to have to bring out the dynamite and blow it away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":21762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggernacle","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0445.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21767,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761\/revisions\/21767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}