{"id":621753,"date":"2010-01-05T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100104\/1717357605.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-05T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T01:17:00","slug":"site-suspends-comments-for-cooling-off-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/621753","title":{"rendered":"Site Suspends Comments For &#8216;Cooling Off Period&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/romenesko\/status\/7370550546\">Romenesko<\/a> we learn of local Illinois news site Pantagraph.com that has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/news\/local\/article_766adc82-f58a-11de-b4cc-001cc4c03286.html\" >suspended comments on local news stories<\/a> as a &#8220;cooling off period&#8221; after it felt that the comments had become too uncivil.  I&#8217;m wondering how this will actually help.  This is the internet that we&#8217;re talking about here, and once the comments are turned back on, I would imagine that they&#8217;ll quickly return to the same level of civility (or lack thereof) pretty quickly.  If you want to create more civil commenting policies, a &#8220;time out&#8221; doesn&#8217;t do that.  Putting in place better incentives does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100104\/1717357605.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100104\/1717357605.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100104\/1717357605&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=901021815cdb24b94bd192bbe16fd2e8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=901021815cdb24b94bd192bbe16fd2e8&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=QXp6mMG00FQ:j7DFIXc4ONc:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=QXp6mMG00FQ:j7DFIXc4ONc:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=QXp6mMG00FQ:j7DFIXc4ONc:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/QXp6mMG00FQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Romenesko we learn of local Illinois news site Pantagraph.com that has suspended comments on local news stories as a &#8220;cooling off period&#8221; after it felt that the comments had become too uncivil. I&#8217;m wondering how this will actually help. This is the internet that we&#8217;re talking about here, and once the comments are turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BKh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}