{"id":72808,"date":"2012-07-23T18:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T02:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17482"},"modified":"2012-07-23T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T02:27:58","slug":"comments-on-internet-publications-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/23\/comments-on-internet-publications-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments on internet publications, what to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>This is probably relevant if you have a blog or run a webzine of some sort. It&#8217;ll be much more abstract if you are a commenter, and can&#8217;t relate concretely to weirdo creeps who persistently spam your comments and contact you via email. In relation to <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/\">bloggingheads.tv<\/a> my own two primary complaints from my experience on that web-show:<\/p>\n<p>\n1) A group of commenters, lead by one particular commenter, persistently verbally abused me as a racist repeatedly even if I was talking about something totally unrelated to race (the commenters admitted that their goal was make sure that I was not invited to the show again through the campaign of harassment). Of course most of these individuals were anonymous. I told the producer that I wasn&#8217;t excited about this in relation to my future possible appearances, and he admitted that they were looking into correcting these issues.<\/p>\n<p>2) The commenters are not, in my opinion, as smart as Bob Wright thinks they are. One <a href=\"http:\/\/brainwaveweb.com\/forum\/search.php?searchid=1904415\">regular commenter<\/a> would offer opinions on evolution based on what Stephen Jay Gould write. This a <a href=\"http:\/\/pleiotropy.fieldofscience.com\/2009\/02\/krugman-on-stephen-jay-gould.html\">problem<\/a>\u00a0for anyone whose bread &amp; butter is evolution (I&#8217;m sure the commenter is not knowledgeable enough to know that &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/cbhwXpExowc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably relevant if you have a blog or run a webzine of some sort. It&#8217;ll be much more abstract if you are a commenter, and can&#8217;t relate concretely to weirdo creeps who persistently spam your comments and contact you via email. In &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72875,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72808\/revisions\/72875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}