{"id":4456,"date":"2013-09-26T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T01:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2013-09-26T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T01:47:38","slug":"popular-science-positively-starves-the-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"Popular Science positively starves the trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2013-09\/why-were-shutting-our-comments\"><em>Popular Science<\/em><\/a> has completely shut off comments for their articles, citing trolling at their number one reason.\u00c2\u00a0 Given our interest here at the NS in the <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4256\"><em>don&#8217;t feed the trolls<\/em><\/a> maxim and our fixation on the <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3527\"><em>Iron Man Fallacy<\/em><\/a>, it&#8217;s worth a shot thinking this through.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a defense of the decision over at WWA, especially against the Will Oremus charge that it&#8217;s a form of scientific dogmatism (or as he says: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2013\/09\/25\/popular_science_says_comments_bad_for_science_shuts_them_off_bad_move.html\">Lazy and Wrong<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p>See my post at WWA.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whyweargue.com\/2013\/09\/positively-starving-trolls.html\">HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Science has completely shut off comments for their articles, citing trolling at their number one reason.\u00c2\u00a0 Given our interest here at the NS in the don&#8217;t feed the trolls maxim and our fixation on the Iron Man Fallacy, it&#8217;s worth a shot thinking this through.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a defense of the decision over at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Popular Science positively starves the trolls<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1014,1126,1170],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-iron-man-arguments","tag-iron-man-fallacy","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}