{"id":3555,"date":"2006-06-24T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2006-06-24T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T12:22:00","slug":"dont-feed-the-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Feed the Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/bc\/2006\/003\/17.36.html\">Goodbye, Blog &#8211; Books &#038; Culture<\/a>: &#8220;And then there are the &#8216;trolls&#8217;: people who comment specifically in order to get a rise out of other commenters\u2014people who have never transcended the discovery that being extremely annoying is one of the most reliable ways of getting attention. Most of us, by third grade or so, come to understand that hostile attention is probably worse than no attention at all, but trolls never learn to make such subtle discriminations. Thus no law of the blogosphere is more important\u2014though also more widely ignored\u2014than &#8216;Don&#8217;t feed the trolls.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good article at Christianity Today, pouring cold water over all my blogging daydreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, Blog &#8211; Books &#038; Culture: &#8220;And then there are the &#8216;trolls&#8217;: people who comment specifically in order to get a rise out of other commenters\u2014people who have never transcended the discovery that being extremely annoying is one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Vl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}