{"id":3171,"date":"2025-03-10T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/r-aliens\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:23:21","slug":"r-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/r-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"R\/aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>r\/aliens Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It looks like r\/aliens has implemented a new rule requiring users to have 2k+ karma before they can comment. This change seems to be a response to negative commentary within the subreddit. Apparently, presenting constructive arguments is no longer encouraged; you&#8217;re either expected to agree or stay silent. I&#8217;m really concerned about this trend\u2014first, r\/ufos tightened its restrictions a week ago, and now r\/aliens is following suit. It feels like there&#8217;s an overwhelming presence of authoritarian attitudes in these spaces. Let&#8217;s hope it doesn&#8217;t continue like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nr\/aliens Update It looks like r\/aliens has implemented a new rule requiring users to have 2k+ karma before they can comment. This change seems to be a response to negative commentary within the subreddit. Apparently, presenting constructive arguments is no longer encouraged; you&#8217;re either expected to agree or stay silent. I&#8217;m really concerned about this&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/r-aliens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;R\/aliens&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}