{"id":24040,"date":"2017-03-03T14:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24040"},"modified":"2017-03-03T14:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:03:35","slug":"nrkbeta-is-taking-the-edge-off-rant-mode-by-making-readers-pass-a-quiz-before-commenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/03\/03\/nrkbeta-is-taking-the-edge-off-rant-mode-by-making-readers-pass-a-quiz-before-commenting\/","title":{"rendered":"NRKbeta is \u201ctaking the edge off rant mode\u201d by making readers pass a quiz before commenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NiemanLab<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2017\/03\/this-site-is-taking-the-edge-off-rant-mode-by-making-readers-pass-a-quiz-before-commenting\/\" target=\"_blank\">This site is \u201ctaking the edge off rant mode\u201d by making readers pass a quiz before commenting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe team at NRKbeta attributes the civil tenor of its comments to a feature it introduced last month. On some stories, potential commenters are now required to answer three basic multiple-choice questions about the article before they\u2019re allowed to post a comment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds like s great idea.  I might be able to open this blog to more comments if I had a tool like this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNRKbeta developer Henrik Lied built the tool as a WordPress plugin, with the questions randomized for each user.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to see if the plugin is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NiemanLab has the article This site is \u201ctaking the edge off rant mode\u201d by making readers pass a quiz before commenting. The team at NRKbeta attributes the civil tenor of its comments to a feature it introduced last month. On some stories, potential commenters are now required to answer three basic multiple-choice questions about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24041,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040\/revisions\/24041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}