{"id":478,"date":"2012-01-29T19:45:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T00:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2012-01-30T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T08:14:08","slug":"welcome-to-the-internet-please-do-not-poke-the-hornets-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/welcome-to-the-internet-please-do-not-poke-the-hornets-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Internet, Please, do not Poke the Hornets Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to the internet. If this is your first day here let me explain some rules to you.<\/p>\n

There are two billion of us here<\/a>\u00a0and we all talk to each other. So, don’t be a dick<\/a>. Don’t come here with an agenda,\u00a0we will sniff it out<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0tell everyone<\/a>. \u00a0It will not end up on the nightly news, but it will ruin your reputation. If you are here to spout talking points, we will ignore you. If you are here to\u00a0astroturf<\/a>\u00a0a movement, push your\u00a0political<\/a>\u00a0views, rally the masses towards your corporate agenda, feel free to try. No one will listen.<\/p>\n

If you run a blog, allow everyone to comment,\u00a0especially\u00a0anonymously, and \u00a0do not require moderator approval to post. Censoring comments, and having rules on what can, and can’t be said doesn’t go over well here. People have reputations and will self\u00a0moderate.<\/p>\n

If you have a social media page,\u00a0allow people to express themselves, and respond to their comments and concerns.\u00a0The nature of the internet isn’t the same as broadcast news. People expect interaction online, if they do not get responses they do not return.\u00a0Do not create false comments online to present the image of being followed. It will be found out and fail.<\/p>\n

Allow people to have their say and express their views. If you look out for people, are\u00a0righteous, enlightened, and\u00a0truthful, they will believe and believe and follow.\u00a0In this place, we are not watching TV, we are interacting.<\/p>\n

Remember, there are two billion of us here, once you lose our trust, it can never be regained, and you will not be remembered kindly.\u00a0Please, do not poke the hornets nest, we are in here.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the internet. If this is your first day here let me explain some rules to you. There are two billion of us here\u00a0and we all talk to each other. So, don’t be a dick. Don’t come here with an agenda,\u00a0we will sniff it out\u00a0and\u00a0tell everyone. \u00a0It will not end up on the nightly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[49,51,50,52],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-party-of-we","tag-agenda","tag-astroturf","tag-hbgary","tag-partyofwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p29Kla-7I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}