{"id":4454,"date":"2010-11-11T18:45:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2010-11-11T18:45:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T22:45:25","slug":"to-be-fair-you-are-very-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/11\/11\/to-be-fair-you-are-very-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To be fair, you are very stupid.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Johnson, at Gizmodo, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5687692\/you-write-bias-journalism-and-i-read-derp\">engages some of that site&#8217;s commenters<\/a> in a way that I would recommend to most sites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems like every so often the comments at\u00c2\u00a0<em>Gizmodo<\/em> fill up with entitled, half-witted thinkers, like a boil taut with ignorance. Even the least pointed opinion by an author ruptures it, leaving us dripping with wet bitterness. It&#8217;s time to give the commentariat a good lancing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A hyperlocal news site that I read &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/arlnow.com\">ARLnow.com<\/a> &#8211; came to mind when I first read this, but really, this is advice for the whole Internet. \u00c2\u00a0The world is filled with stupid people, and not every opinion deserves a platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Johnson, at Gizmodo, engages some of that site&#8217;s commenters in a way that I would recommend to most sites: It seems like every so often the comments at\u00c2\u00a0Gizmodo fill up with entitled, half-witted thinkers, like a boil taut with ignorance. Even the least pointed opinion by an author ruptures it, leaving us dripping with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4455,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}