{"id":1694,"date":"2010-03-24T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/24\/post-anonymity-poll\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:33:48","slug":"post-anonymity-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/24\/post-anonymity-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Anonymity Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthcommonsense.com\/2009\/07\/anonymity-in-the-blogosphere.html\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a> before that I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscommonsense.com\/2009\/09\/anonymous-blog-commenters.html\" target=\"_blank\">online commenters<\/a> to blog posts or news articles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscommonsense.com\/commenters\/\" target=\"_blank\">should identify themselves<\/a>.&#160; (I don\u2019t really have that problem here.)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/surveys.questionpro.com\/akira\/TakeSurvey?id=1645227\" target=\"_blank\">a poll<\/a> on this issue at <em>The Washington Post<\/em>. It\u2019s breaking slightly for those who favor anonymity.&#160; If you don\u2019t, weigh in.&#160; If you do, please disregard this post.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a <em>Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/story-lab\/2010\/03\/the_lowest_comment_denominator.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my take:&#160; If a newspaper requires identification for a letter to the editor, how can it justify anonymity to online commenters on an article?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve stated before that I think online commenters to blog posts or news articles should identify themselves.&#160; (I don\u2019t really have that problem here.) There\u2019s a poll on this issue at The Washington Post. It\u2019s breaking slightly for those who favor anonymity.&#160; If you don\u2019t, weigh in.&#160; If you do, please disregard this post. There\u2019s&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/24\/post-anonymity-poll\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}