Washington Post Halts Blog Comments<\/p>\n
Duncan Riley at Blog Herald reports that \u201cThe WashingtonPost has for an indefinite period shut off the ability for people to post comments on its blog since of \u2018objectionable postings.\u2019\u201dDuncan explains that the Post\u2019s policy was to prohibit comments that were personal attacks or used vulgarity or hate speech. Sounds like they got a whiff of the time eater that blog comment management can be. Surprised they did not just install some filters and \/ or CAPTCHA tools to cut down on spamming and questionable language.\u201cBecause a significant number of folks who have posted in this blog have refused to follow any of those relatively simple rules, we\u2019ve decided not to allow comments for the time being,\u201d Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, wrote on the subject.Hmmm, after taking a glance at one of the Washington Post\u2019s political blogs, it seems that comments are live again. A look at The Fix also shows comments are active. Seems that Duncan is only referring to the official Washington Post Blog, and not blogs within the Washington Post Media site. Those comment fields are still open for writing offensive postings by Washingtonians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington Post Halts Blog Comments Duncan Riley at Blog Herald reports that \u201cThe WashingtonPost has for an indefinite period shut off the ability for people to post comments on its blog since of \u2018objectionable postings.\u2019\u201dDuncan explains that the Post\u2019s policy was to prohibit comments that were personal attacks or used vulgarity or hate speech. Sounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-search-engine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}