{"id":645,"date":"2013-04-03T21:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=645"},"modified":"2013-04-03T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:50:22","slug":"organisational-leaders-send-an-open-letter-to-secular-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/04\/03\/organisational-leaders-send-an-open-letter-to-secular-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisational leaders send an open letter to secular community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The open letter calling for more civility in online interaction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforinquiry.net\/news\/an_open_letter_to_the_secular_community\">can be found\u00a0on CFI&#8217;s website<\/a>\u00a0(and doubtless on other sites). Signatories include some impressive organisational leaders (singling out any in particular would be invidious). I don&#8217;t wish to comment in detail, but of course I deplore the incivility (and worse) that has hurt\u00a0many individuals and damaged the\u00a0atheist, secularist, and skeptic movements.\u00a0This has been a theme of mine for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the signatories do not merely\u00a0call for more civility from others. They say they\u00a0&#8220;pledge to make our best efforts toward improving the tone and substance of online discussions.&#8221; In itself that seems like\u00a0a good thing, so we&#8217;ll now see what action they take to fulfil that pledge.<\/p>\n<p>As always, this particular blog is committed to encouraging reasonable, civil, charitable discussion. I expect commenters here to respect that, which they usually do. Moderation is light, but I do take steps to try to keep discussion from devolving into flame wars, vilification, dogpiling, etc. Accordingly, it\u00a0will be business as usual here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open letter calling for more civility in online interaction can be found\u00a0on CFI&#8217;s website\u00a0(and doubtless on other sites). Signatories include some impressive organisational leaders (singling out any in particular would be invidious). I don&#8217;t wish to comment in detail, but of course I deplore the incivility (and worse) that has hurt\u00a0many individuals and damaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,30,19],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-2","category-culture","category-debate","tag-civility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}