{"id":28181,"date":"2016-11-16T01:39:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28181"},"modified":"2016-11-15T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T00:44:52","slug":"do-you-want-upvotes-in-blog-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/do-you-want-upvotes-in-blog-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want upvotes in blog comments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So. The idea came up yesterday of having the ability to upvote blog comments. Many times, after someone&#8217;s posted a particularly informative and well-researched comment &#8212; or a particularly pithy one &#8212; I&#8217;ve longed for the upvote button, only to be left with itchy fingers and no way of casting that vote.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out though, according to He Who Fakes It Well, that the upvote ability (upvotability?) is already built into one of our WordPress plugins and needs only be activated.<\/p>\n<p>The question is now: do you want it? If you say you do, it&#8217;s a simple matter of a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p>As I understand it, this is strictly for &#8220;likes.&#8221; No downvotes, no smiting, no using it to disagree with somebody or protest a troll. Just a little reward.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"true\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"livifree07-20\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar_position = \"bottom\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_title = \"Amazon picks for SHTF\";\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"preparedness\";\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"824a59f2c9e0d59ce23beb8d3fbdd433\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. The idea came up yesterday of having the ability to upvote blog comments. Many times, after someone&#8217;s posted a particularly informative and well-researched comment &#8212; or a particularly pithy one &#8212; I&#8217;ve longed for the upvote button, only to be left with itchy fingers and no way of casting that vote. Turns out though, according to He Who Fakes It Well, that the upvote ability (upvotability?) is already built into one of our WordPress plugins and needs only be activated. The question is now: do you want it? If you say you do, it&#8217;s a simple matter of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/do-you-want-upvotes-in-blog-comments\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you want upvotes in blog comments?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28184,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28181\/revisions\/28184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}