The Blogger’s Code of Conduct
Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Administrator
In order to counter abusive online behavior, Tim O’Reilly and others proposed the Blogger’s Code of Conduct. The proposal contained ideas that focus on self-regulation. They proposed that bloggers should take responsibility for their words and also for the comments that they allow in their blog. They should set their tolerance level for abusive comments, consider eliminating comments that are anonymous, and ignore trolls. When it comes to conversations, bloggers should take them offline and to either talk directly or through an intermediary. The more important ideas of the Code of Conduct are to tell the abusive person of his misbehavior online and to remember not to say anything online that you wouldn’t say in person.
