{"id":38823,"date":"2004-06-18T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/18\/tweaked-comment-policy\/"},"modified":"2004-06-18T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T00:01:00","slug":"tweaked-comment-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040618-00\/?p=38823","title":{"rendered":"Tweaked comment policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along the navband on the left hand side is a link to the comment policy. The most significant change since its first release is that&nbsp;I introduced the two-week rule. As a general rule, comments posted more than two weeks after the article publication are eligible&nbsp;for summary deletion. It&#8217;s great that you&#8217;re all interested n stuff, but having to deal with comments on articles I wrote six months ago is just too much work, especially when the topic drifts far away from the original subject.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, <a href=\"http:\/\/shikantaza.blogspot.com\/2004_06_01_shikantaza_archive.html\">one person claimed that I closed comments because I was losing an argument<\/a>.&nbsp; If you look at the timestamps, I closed comments after four months of inactivity. Everybody had two months to say their piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the navband on the left hand side is a link to the comment policy. The most significant change since its first release is that&nbsp;I introduced the two-week rule. As a general rule, comments posted more than two weeks after the article publication are eligible&nbsp;for summary deletion. It&#8217;s great that you&#8217;re all interested n stuff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-38823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Along the navband on the left hand side is a link to the comment policy. The most significant change since its first release is that&nbsp;I introduced the two-week rule. As a general rule, comments posted more than two weeks after the article publication are eligible&nbsp;for summary deletion. It&#8217;s great that you&#8217;re all interested n stuff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}