{"id":600,"date":"2007-07-27T19:34:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T02:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2007-07-27T19:34:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T02:34:43","slug":"hey-nerd-youre-giving-nerds-a-bad-name-ynerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Nerd – you're giving nerds a bad name! Y'nerd."},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know that anyone has a good plan for dealing with trolls online, other than blocking them out. And if you can’t block them out, you might have to stand up to them. And if you stand up to them, they will likely just spaz more. It happens.<\/p>\n

But I can tell you this about the link I am about to share – if you’re a troll online, then you are, in fact, a nerd (just, a dark part of the family, way off on the corner.) And if you, as a nerd, opt for crossing state-lines to commit arson, while posting it on the internet as proof… you’re still a nerd, only you have an anger management problem. Which is actually kind of common in online nerds.<\/p>\n

Oh well, now you’re a nerd in prison.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know that anyone has a good plan for dealing with trolls online, other than blocking them out. And if you can’t block them out, you might have to stand up to them. And if you stand up to them, they will likely just spaz more. It happens. But I can tell you this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}