April 10th, 2007
Blogger Code of Conduct Drafted : Civility Enforced
Do bloggers need guidelines about blogging conduct and civil behavior? Tim O’Reilly is drafting a Blogger Code of Conduct, which is shaping up by the collaborative effort of bloggers on a wiki committed to the “Civility Enforced” standards.
O’Reilly has posted the first draft, which is also posted on the Blogging Wikia, where you can join in and edit the wiki and encourage others too. The final version will be posted on bloggingcode.org, along with the html to display the badge and link to the code. It is based on the Blogher community guidelines, that embrace the spirit of civil disagreement and declines to publish unacceptable content.
Here is what the blogger conduct code says now -
1. We take responsibility for our own words and reserve the right to restrict comments on our blog that do not conform to basic civility standards.
2. We won’t say anything online that we wouldn’t say in person.
3. If tensions escalate, we will connect privately before we respond publicly.
4. When we believe someone is unfairly attacking another, we take action.
5. We do not allow anonymous comments.
6. We ignore the trolls.
7. We encourage blog hosts to enforce more vigorously their terms of service.
You may not agree on many of these points. So they have also decided on a “anything goes” badge for sites that want to warn possible commenters that they are entering a free-for-all zone.
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Comments
RSS feed for comments on this post.1. Senior | 11/04/07 #
This code of conduct assumes that every blogger is a member of one big community, and that isn’t the case. If somee bloggers wish to be part of a regulated community, that’s fine, but it is totally wrong that they should try and impose their community on any other blogger. Nobody should have to display a logo if they wish to have more flexible policies. Each blogger should be free to make their own decisions about what rules apply to tTechnologyheir blogs, as long as they aren’t violating the terms and conditions of the site which powers their blog, or aren’t breaking any law.
2. amrita | 12/04/07 #
Why is there such a need of monitoring every word on the face of any blog community when the “blog” is a personal space published by a single entity? It duznt happen to be a public medium…the “internet” is a “public medium” and my blog is a personal outlet for me and my ramblings which is accessible to the world through a public medium i.e.,its accessible to the world only if i want it to be.
On the contrary, any offensive blog displaying porn, warez or any other offensive and degrading material can be monitored by the authorities just like similar websites are.
Do I want a balding internet administrator reading through my blog and censoring me?
Censorship never worked in the past. It doesn’t work today, television and tinsel towns notwithstanding. What makes some people think that it is going to work today?
3. Immorally yours……. | 12/04/07
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