{"id":1373,"date":"2009-12-03T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/03\/gut-check-for-the-in-box\/"},"modified":"2009-12-03T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:23:00","slug":"gut-check-for-the-in-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/03\/gut-check-for-the-in-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Gut check for the In Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest:  I was hoping that after the special election wound down, the In Box comment section would lose some of the hysterical and nasty tone.<\/p>\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t happened.  We have half a dozen contributors who seem incapable of discussing issues without trying to score cheap points and make personal digs. <\/p>\n<p>Some of it&#8217;s been really nasty.  I&#8217;ve been hearing from smart, interesting, open-minded folks who are &#8220;quitting&#8221; the In Box because so much of the conversation is just adolescent.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m looking for thoughts and suggestions.  Is the tone here too toxic?  Should we require contributors to register?<\/p>\n<p>Is it a good idea to have a comment section at all?<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I especially want to hear from those of you who are screwing this up. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re one of the folks who lives to flame, take a second to talk about how this &#8220;community&#8221; can survive your particular mindset. <\/p>\n<p>Is there a way we can convince you to knock off the ugliness?  Or is that the allure?<\/p>\n<p>I also want to hear from the many &#8220;good citizens&#8221; who participate here regularly.  Are you being blown out of the water?  Turned off?  Or am I just being too thin-skinned for the blogging age?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: I was hoping that after the special election wound down, the In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}