{"id":1154,"date":"2011-08-03T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/bertrand-russells-advice-to-internet-commenters\/"},"modified":"2011-08-03T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T01:19:00","slug":"bertrand-russells-advice-to-internet-commenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/bertrand-russells-advice-to-internet-commenters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand Russell\u2019s advice to internet commenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[LOVE. -egg]<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/7_giXt_vhU0\/bertrand-russells-advice-to-internet-commenters.html\">Bertrand Russell\u2019s advice to internet commenters<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sure, it\u2019s not really what he had in mind. But I\u2019m rather struck by the fact that pretty much every flame war ever could be avoided if we only listened to him. Shorter version: Recognize that you could be wrong, be tolerant of people who say things you hate and kind to people with whom you disagree, and, for god\u2019s sake, don\u2019t feed the trolls*.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*He didn\u2019t actually say that last bit, but it\u2019s just assumed at this point, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/O8h-xEuLfm8\">Video Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108588435342221529226\/posts\">Joe Dwyer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=032db934cddf84cdd71823d2a6e179a3&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=032db934cddf84cdd71823d2a6e179a3&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/amch.questionmarket.com\/adsc\/d887846\/17\/909940\/adscout.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/7_giXt_vhU0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\">&#8220;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[LOVE. -egg] Bertrand Russell\u2019s advice to internet commenters: &#8220; Sure, it\u2019s not really what he had in mind. But I\u2019m rather struck by the fact that pretty much every flame war ever could be avoided if we only listened to him. Shorter version: Recognize that you could be wrong, be tolerant of people who say [&hellip;]<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-iC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}