{"id":16660,"date":"2017-03-02T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16660"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:16:58","slug":"this-site-is-taking-the-edge-off-rant-mode-by-making-readers-pass-a-quiz-before-commenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16660","title":{"rendered":"This site is \u201ctaking the edge off rant mode\u201d by making readers pass a quiz before commenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>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 article before they\u2019re allowed to post a comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><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\/\">This site is \u201ctaking the edge off rant mode\u201d by making readers pass a quiz before commenting<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The goal is to ensure that the commenters have actually read the story before they discuss it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 article before they\u2019re allowed to post &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[976,970],"class_list":["post-16660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-methods","tag-comment-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16661,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions\/16661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}