{"id":43959,"date":"2009-11-18T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091117\/1453586976.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-18T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:01:00","slug":"dont-post-comments-on-stltoday-com-or-they-might-tell-your-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43959","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Post Comments On StlToday.com Or They Might Tell Your Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=45&#038;aid=173672\" >Romenesko<\/a> comes this little gem of how the online editor of StlToday.com got upset about a &#8220;vulgar&#8221; comment that was left on a story.  The editor, Kurt Greenbaum, noticed that the commenter in question&#8217;s IP address was a local school, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.riverfronttimes.com\/dailyrft\/2009\/11\/stltodaycom_censor_turns_tattle-tale_kurt_greenbaum_name_that_vulgar_expression.php\" >contacted the school to alert them that someone from there had left a comment<\/a>.  And then:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;About six hours later, I heard from the school&#8217;s headmaster&#8230;The headmaster confronted the employee, who resigned on the spot.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lesson of the day?  Don&#8217;t post comments on StlToday.com or its editors may call your boss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091117\/1453586976.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091117\/1453586976.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091117\/1453586976&#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=9ab661951bfce8af395dfac717300c74&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=9ab661951bfce8af395dfac717300c74&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=rAvckUzBWAM:jz7Ttv0QJwg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=rAvckUzBWAM:jz7Ttv0QJwg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=rAvckUzBWAM:jz7Ttv0QJwg: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\/rAvckUzBWAM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Romenesko comes this little gem of how the online editor of StlToday.com got upset about a &#8220;vulgar&#8221; comment that was left on a story. The editor, Kurt Greenbaum, noticed that the commenter in question&#8217;s IP address was a local school, and contacted the school to alert them that someone from there had left a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}