TrollTowne
A week ago, well two weeks ago now, there was a flurry of stories
A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs - New York Times and commentary
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | The blogosphere risks putting off everyone but point-scoring males on a suggested Blogger's Code of Conduct. It was all about making the Blogensphere behave and the discourse civil. Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales are the principals behind this
O'Reilly Radar > Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct. To me it was all fairly innocuous. So much so that I couldn't think of anything to say about it at first. Mostly it is about dealing with flaming in comments sections.
We define unacceptable content as anything included or linked to that:- is being used to abuse, harass, stalk, or threaten others
- is libelous, knowingly false, ad-hominem, or misrepresents another person,
- infringes upon a copyright or trademark
- violates an obligation of confidentiality
- violates the privacy of others
excerpt from the draft code of conduct I have to come down on O'Reilly's side on this. Though, I understand why many are not inclined to;
Howls of protest as web gurus attempt to banish bad behaviour from blogosphere | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology. Writing is hard, only so many people will take it up, or make much out of the endeavor. The written web log world, despite its growth, will for that reason (if no other) be in the end a relatively contained world. Which is why the new Web 2.0 tools move beyond writing and integrate other media to a much greater extent Victor Keegan: To the average Joe, blogs aren't cutting it | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology. Trolls ye will always hae wi ye. No amount of nanny-ing will change that. It is a problem; angry rhetoric kills conversation. Most sites tend towards being post-centric or comments-centric. Some sites envisioned themselves as community sites from the start. Their life being almost entirely in their comments. Web 1.5 versions of the newsgroup worlds before them. The best [ MetaFilter ] found means and techniques of maintaining their openness and viability. Others who gradually built up followings, often go through periods of instability. This underscores the perception that the problem is centered in comments and other venues lending themselves to anonymity. On this web log I know the only content I have to worry about is mine. I don't get many comments. If I start running off at the mouth: hateful and abusive. Taking cheap shots at people. Commentors, if I had any, would be within their rights to water-log me with whatever indignation they could sustain. They wouldn't need and shouldn't ask for anonymity to do so. Law of the marketplace provides the sufficient. Civility of community provides the necessary, and allows the cordiality of mischievous masking; Wealth Bondage (who... all... had plenty to say about this at the time).
This marketplace of ideas should strive to define violently-intended sandbagging as outside it. But it begs the question whether the comment tools that come with first generation web logs can effectively do what the Bloggers Code of Conduct asks. Userland's trackback and comments are susceptible to spam (trackback especially) and often cranky; delivering up cryptic error messages rather than deleting anything. I note that all this seems much more robust in Web 2.0 web log tools. Vox and the like. Everyone should remember there is an upcoming election cycle. Before it's over, things will get ugly. Very ugly. I have some limited expectations I would like to see observed; though, little confidence they will be. List your biases, show your pay stubs. If you believe in something, say so. If you're being paid to shill for something or someone it's deceitful and fraudulent to obscure it. Expect people to say this to you. The FEC - congress really - has a minor document filing debate on their hands. It seems some in congress would rather keep to filing paper with the FEC detailing how their campaign were conducted. Who they paid. With incumbent months long delays in processing GOP Unknown Halts Electronic Finance Filings - washingtonpost.com. Why would some rather not file electronically in a open and timely manner, and what hides in that closet? Sheep and wolves . Everyone agrees (is pleased to agree) that the world consists of sheeps and wolves. And they all believe, often a quite private belief, that they are the wolves and the rest of us are the sheep. But all these opinions are of sheep. The real wolves think in different terms. They are merely hungry and in their thoughts inconsolable.
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