{"id":627,"date":"2014-08-08T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2014-10-04T12:32:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T19:32:27","slug":"giving-up-posting-replys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Giving up posting replys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Recently I was on eham.net and we had one of the typical back in my day, real hams do [blank], test is to easy, ham radio trolling post. This reply nailed it especially the recent debate on my timeline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">&#8220;Most forum readers lack the ability to focus their attention<br \/>\nto read with understanding beyond one or two sentences.<br \/>\nOnce you hit three, they become irritated at the need\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nto minimally think. This inability\/unwillingness forces them<br \/>\nto consider their vacuous existence for a moment.<br \/>\nThereafter, they will go one of three ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #141823;\">\n<p>The 80% will make-up some smart-ass remark that<br \/>\nmakes them feel better about themselves for a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The next 5% will actually read your post, consider it and<br \/>\nmake a reasoned reply.<\/p>\n<p>The smartest 15% will realize that discussion is futile<br \/>\nand go do something else&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am in the 5% to 15% range. I no longer feel the need to reply on stories on web sites, forums and news site and limit replies elsewhere and use the unfollow option (but still friend) on facebook.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was on eham.net and we had one of the typical back in my day, real hams do [blank], test is to easy, ham radio trolling post. This reply nailed it especially the recent debate on my timeline. &#8220;Most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[287,285,286,288],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-culture","category-technology","tag-forums","tag-internet-culture","tag-replies","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}