![]() ![]() ![]() In this episode, Dan recounts for Soren and Robert Krulwich the story of his obsession. Dan became obsessed with quicksand after happening upon a strange fact: kids are no longer afraid of it. Then-Producer Soren Wheeler introduces us to Dan Engber, writer and columnist for Slate, now with The Atlantic. But these days, quicksand can't even scare an 8-year-old. “If you sign your name Bill Clinton or Frank Zappa, we’ll in all likelihood delete it, unless we’re certain you’re the former president or the reincarnated Mother of Invention.For many of us, quicksand was once a real fear - it held a vise grip on our imaginations, from childish sandbox games to grown-up anxieties about venturing into unknown lands. (Further elaboration on this from the Caucus, the national political blog: You pretended to be someone you aren’t and used a fake e-mail.You posted long excerpts of content published elsewhere or tried to pass it off as your own.We don’t impose a word count, but a long and rambling essay takes a long time for the moderators to review and taxes the patience of other readers. If you are having an extended back-and-forth with another reader, we might eventually put a stop to it if you are driving everyone else away. And if you have already posted on a topic, give others a chance. Don’t repost your comments on multiple posts. If many people have already said something already, please don’t say it again. But if you send us an e-mail message, we will check. There are hundreds of really nasty comments in the spam filter. ![]() There are any number of reasons for this, including too many links or certain fake e-mail addresses. And we won’t tolerate personal attacks on reporters or editors. This also applies to commentsĪbout our moderation policy, although those are on topic for this post. That is also the best way to point out grammar, spelling and factual errors. It is best to send complaints about our … presentationīy e-mail message (click here) for prompt attention. While we welcome and publish substantive criticism of our work, and even respond to it, this is not a blog about The Times. The spelling, grammar or logic was so confused that we simply could not understand what you were trying to say, or it had nothing to do with the article. Incoherence or failure to stay on topic.That includes masked or veiled profanities that combine letters and dashes. If you wouldn’t say it inįront of your mother, a minister or a 5-year-old, think twice about saying it here. We know people talk this way every day, even in our newsroom, but certain words do still offend and anger people, or at the very least make them less likely to come back here. Our rules forbid even mild oaths and vulgarities that are now common on TV and the Web. No name-calling and personal abuse, please. You called someone an idiot, a moron, a dope, a dummy, or something else uncivil.In particular to know that Learning Network rules are the same rules that apply on every blog, we repost the following: The Top 10 Reasons We Deleted Your Comment Because we couldn’t have said it better ourselves, and because we want student commenters To better explain deletions, we refer you to a post written by Patrick LaForge The Learning Network follows New York Times commenting practice.
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