Countering Abusive Online Behavior
Due to abusive online behavior especially attacks or threats against the blogger, Tim O’Reilly proposed the Blogger’s Code of Conduct. The purpose of which is to enforce civility on bloggers. This move came about as a result of the threats made to blogger Kathy Sierra, author of the inoffensive blog Creating Passionate Users. In one instance she was made a target of vicious threats and misogynistic insults.
The Code emphasizes self-regulation, meaning it should be the bloggers themselves who should impose civility among themselves and place moderate comments on their blogs. If this can be done, it is expected that bloggers will be more responsible and abusive online behavior will be minimized if not totally eradicated.
