Although it is several years old now, Tim O’Reilly’s the Blogger’s Code of Conduct is still as pertinent, poingant and helfpful as ever.
According to Wikipedia the “proposal by Tim O’Reilly for bloggers to enforce civility on their blogs by being civil themselves and moderating comments on their blog. The code was proposed due to threats made to blogger Kathy Sierra.”
The concept of a blogger’s code was first reported by the BBC News, who quoted O’Reilly saying, “I do think we need some code of conduct around what is acceptable behaviour, I would hope that it doesn’t come through any kind of regulation it would come through self-regulation.”
O’Reilly and others came up with these seven ideas:
1. Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.
2. Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.
3. Consider eliminating anonymous comments.
4. Ignore the trolls.
5. Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an intermediary who can do so.
6. If you know someone who is behaving badly, tell them so.
7. Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t say in person.
Give me some feeback, fill in the blank Idea number __________ is the most pressing need for blogging currently and tell me why.
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