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| Rose |
 Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct |
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Following the Kathy Sierra situation where Kathy was targeted by a series of increasingly violent and disturbing anonymous comments on her blog and on a series of weblogs, Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, Inc has posted a Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct.
One part of the post I need to take into consideration as Tim gives excellent advice.
"Ignore the trolls. Sometimes you need to stand up to bullies, but at other times, the best thing to do is to ignore them. As one person advised me long ago when I got in a public tussle with a blog bully, "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it." "It's important to know when to walk away."
You can read more about it at
Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct
Do you think that there should be a blogger's code of conduct?
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| Jessi |
| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: Re: Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct |
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| Rose wrote: | | "Ignore the trolls. Sometimes you need to stand up to bullies, but at other times, the best thing to do is to ignore them. As one person advised me long ago when I got in a public tussle with a blog bully, "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it." "It's important to know when to walk away." |
I couldn't agree more. This applies to not only blogging or even online forums, but also in 'real life', so to speak. You've gotta learn who to stand up to and who to ignore....and even though it's hard, people have to learn when to talk away....
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I'm really not sure how much good it would do.... |
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| Icaterus |
| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: |
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Hmm...
I skimmed over O'Reilly's post. I think a code of conduct is something the high level bloggers are going to have to do as they start earning money and blogging becomes important like a job to them. They probably need to follow it so they can guard against Kathy Sierra style things.
Yea a code of conduct would be nice... but honestly I don't think anyone would follow it apart from the big bloggers.
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| airraid81 |
| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| No rules govern the web. Do what you want, and if you're an asshole, you probably won't make many friends and have much success. If someone is being an asshole to you, use your own judgment to decide how to handle it. |
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| erikko |
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| BlueJeanFemme |
| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:36 am Post subject: |
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I was the victim of a very hateful anonymous comment after the ending of my last relationship which was documented online by the blogs my ex and I kept. I was then harrassed for a while by another (possibly the same) anonymous poster and wound up starting my current blog in secret. I set it up, used a completely new email address and everything. I emailed my friends to give them the new URL rather than announcing on my old blog where I was going as I had previously done.
On the new blog I signed up for Haloscan comments. While they allow the anonymous comments, they also provide the commenter's IP address and allow you to ban comments from IP addresses.
No, I do not believe there needs to be a code of conduct. The world is a big place full of good people and bad people. You can't change an asshole, but you can do something to prevent him/her from continuing to get away with something.
Consider eliminating anonymous comments.
When people are anonymous, they will often let themselves say or do things that they would never do when they are identified. There are important contexts in which anonymity is important, for example, for political speech in repressive regimes. But in most contexts, accountability via identity changes how people behave. Requiring a valid email address for comments won't prevent people who want to hide their identity from doing so, but it's one more indication that accountability is valued. |
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| Rose |
| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Personally- I think a bloggers code of conduct is a good idea. A blog should not be used as a means to abuse, harass, and post defamatory, knowingly false information about any one.
I also believe that I control what is published on my blog and if a comment is abusive or harassing towards someone then I should have the right to delete it.
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