{"id":1647,"date":"2008-03-23T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T02:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/03\/23\/on-comment-moderation\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T15:08:52","slug":"on-comment-moderation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"On Comment Moderation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2008\/03\/22\/variations-on-a-theme-32\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"uncle-sam-ranting.jpg\" id=\"image1646\" alt=\"uncle-sam-ranting.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/uncle-sam-ranting.jpg\" \/>I moderate all of my comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Primarily because sometimes the spam filter breaks down and I had to delete 50 pieces of Spam from the moderation queue on Friday. Partly because I don&#8217;t really value everyone&#8217;s opinions equally. Seriously. It&#8217;s nice to pay lip service to the idea that everyone&#8217;s dissenting opinions are valid and&#8230; whatever, but they aren&#8217;t. Why am I spending my time and bandwidth giving people I literally think _nothing of_ a platform for their rantings? Why should I expect that I can go to someone else&#8217;s blog and say _literally anything_ and deserve to be heard? More importantly, why does anyone want to be a part of a forum where their opinions are given equal weight and access to those of racists, misogynists, misandrists, homophobes, or just the chronically, painfully stupid? Is it masochism?<\/p>\n<p>My blog is not &#8220;The Government,&#8221; neither is anyone else&#8217;s (to my knowledge), no one is censoring you. Start a blog with your ridiculous dissenting opinions. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\">They&#8217;re free, and you can spout off all of the hateful stupid bullshit you want<\/a>. America!<br \/>\n&#8211; Chris<br \/>\n<em>A public service announcement, for those that they now need to unsubscribe or otherwise stop reading because my politics disagree with theirs. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I moderate all of my comments. Primarily because sometimes the spam filter breaks down and I had to delete 50 pieces of Spam from the moderation queue on Friday. Partly because I don&#8217;t really value everyone&#8217;s opinions equally. Seriously. It&#8217;s nice to pay lip service to the idea that everyone&#8217;s dissenting opinions are valid and&#8230; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Comment Moderation&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}