Netiquette has been around for a while, where you are online generally dictates how you behave and what aspect of netiquette you follow. Whilst there are some general rule these often go out of the window in the correct context. For example, cross-posting pr0n is not against the rules on forum that openly advocates the free movement of pixelated filth.
The key to any form of netiquette therefore is actually dictated not by the community as such, but by the place in which they are applied. Hence Jay Stile's 2000 Webby Award winning site, Stile Project (not work safe will offend), has a very different set of netiquette to somewhere such as AOL moderated family chatrooms.
Blogs, like this site, and others, are unique individual spaces online. Effectively they are they're own little bulletin board. Owned by their owners, and run as their owners see fit. They may share a theme or subject with others, but the netiquette which they fall within is that which is held by the owner.
There are of course some authoritarians out there that wish to make all blogs of a certain type, for example political blogs, act in certain way. They would like to see rulebooks that control how one interacts. They site things like the "right to reply" as justification. In my view where they fail is believing that they have a right to reply.
Of course the argument is arse about face, because it claims to be in favour of debate whilst simultaneously dictating the means by which that debate should be framed. It's rather like the fabled "consultation" processes that Government love so much.
But whilst these people are evidently wrong in their Cromwellian puritanism designed to reduce moral poverty on the blogosphere, they certainly should be allowed to let their authoritarian views be heard. Therefore, I suggest to them that they submit an RFC that way they can have "This site is RFC xxx Compliant" on their pages. Apply the so-called "right to reply" to the Internet and see what they think, but don't cry when they plonk you.
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Hear hear! -waves order papers around- You show 'em authoritarian lefties what for Dizzy! No voluntary code here, that's for sure!
Manic hopes to bring you around, Dizzy... and Manic already has the advantage, because what he has in mind is nothing like the picture you paint.
:o)
As for your comment about 'moral poverty', you now know the origins of this phrase and you should have had the wisdom to not throw it in my face.
PS - A blog that does not offer right of reply is not a real weblog; it is merely a content-management system. Perhaps - at best - it can be described as a jack-booted excuse for a forum.
Why should I care about the origin of the phrase? It's nonsense in relation to your self-appointed crusade, and you won't bring me round. I've been online long enough to see people like you come and go more than once.
p.s. a weblog is a log on the web. Little more. Truth be known, it's a some html with a little guestbook script added. Nothing special. Now please submit an RFC with your plans and submit them to the Internet for them to reply to you.
Manic is confused. You seem to be suggesting that the plan he has for you (that you have invented) is too hardline, yet you insist that he follows your plan.
PS - Manic is comfortable in the knowledge that what happens with Teh Plan *will* be up to the internets.... and he still looks forward to the day that you come around. To help bring this day closer, he provides you with a link regarding framed debate and asks you to attempt to be objective.
cuckoo cuckoo
beep!
That is the level of 'debate' Manic would expect from your lesser Guido follower, but he knows that you can do better.
you're not that thick.
Manic's thoughts exactly. He has faith in you.
Oh I'm thicker than that. I just know how to hack web servers.
Manic detects the faint whiff of a veiled threat. How pleasant it is.
And you plan to use this skill to enable freedom of speech how...?
Threat? I was merely showing you my large penis in order to add to your mental inadequacy complex.
I mean, you're called "manic" so I presume you were 4Real as it were. Right now I'm waiting for you to write a song about solitude being the 11th commandment and then disappearing.
Manic is amused at the way you change the subject or avoid it altogether when push comes to shove*.
(*Not a veiled threat.)
Little things, please little minds.
You're mistaking statements of fact for statements of potential actions. That's OK, people like you have these problems. Now you have taken your depakote and lithium right?
Manic thinks that independent readers will be able to make up their own minds about that response.
Well said Dizzy.
I see that Timbo has reacted in his usual way.. along the lines of "a weblog is what I say it is, and the whole web will do it my way". You can almost hear the maniacal laughter and visualise the cat stroking...
It says a great deal, but I actually think the axe murderer comes across as more sane, stable and generally reasonable than this jerk.
More clumsy briefing from the astro-turfers who claim to despise astro-turfing. Manic would add a yawn, but he wouldn't want to come off looking like a amateur.
Timbo
Damn, you are a self-righteous little twerp, aren't you?
For the record, I happily speak for myself. I don't claim to represent anybody else, and I'm certainly not trying to fake grassroots support for anything.
But the more people oppose authoritarian morons like you, the better.
Lerxst:
In this arena, 'authoritarian morons' can use our own desires for anonymity against us.
Have a think about that.
Ireland you are a disgusting pervert.
Wow, I astro-turfed in my sleep? I didn't know I had it in me.
also note that the loopy one confused hack for crack.
Whoa! Were Tim Ireland and Jade Goody separated at birth?
This is why the voluntary code free zone was set up by D & B. On the other hand, there is a netiquette that you and most observe, just because we do.
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