{"id":569,"date":"2004-10-19T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T00:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:52","slug":"talkllefts_no_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"TalklLeft’s “No Comments”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeralyn, over at ‘Talk Left’ has a new comments policy<\/a> in place.<\/p>\n

The time has come to limit the “chatter” on TalkLeft–constant comments by those who disagree with TalkLeft’s positions, designed to overtake the discussion. I am receiving emails from TalkLeft’s loyal readers who say that they feel the discussion is no longer valuable because of the constant commenting by three or four of these individuals.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, here is the new policy. The “chatterers”–and they know who they are –will be limited to four comments of reasonable length during a 24 hour period. All comments over this amount will be deleted without explanation. After the third violation, the chatterer will be banned.<\/p>\n

This group includes the relatively new poster “ras” who I notified of this policy last Friday and has ignored it. It does not include Jim (poker player) or Cliff–who although they take the other side, in my opinion stimulate debate. They also are the first to respond every time I put out a call for contributions.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m certainly not shy about banning people who I think are here to piss in the punchbowl, as opposed to stimulate argument, but there’s something kind of creepy about this. As I read it, the plan is that those who disagree with the host’s positions are welcome to post three short comments every 24 hours. I’d think it was a bad idea even if they proposed to ban all those who commented more than three times in 24 hours, because in my mind it’s all about conversation here. I – along with the other authors here – may have the loudest voice, because what I write shows up on the site directly; but the contributions of the people who agree, disagree, or are just plan befuddled by what I write are what makes this worthwhile and not just a vast echo chamber for my writer’s narcissism.<\/p>\n

I hope I misinterpreted Jeralyn’s intent. I hope the plan gets changed. It’s too bad it is even being considered, or that it has to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeralyn, over at ‘Talk Left’ has a new comments policy in place. The time has come to limit the “chatter” on TalkLeft–constant comments by those who disagree with TalkLeft’s positions, designed to overtake the discussion. I am receiving emails from TalkLeft’s loyal readers who say that they feel the discussion is no longer valuable because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}