Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:46:00
Blogger’s Code of Conduct
Jesus Christ. A guy publishes a few books that geeks love and he thinks he can fucking tell people how to post on their own god-damned blogs?
When I wrote my Call for a Blogging Code of Conduct last week, I suggested some ideas of what such a code might contain, but didn’t actually put forth a draft that people could subscribe to. We’re not quite there yet, but we have a plan.
We’ve drafted a code of conduct that will eventually be posted on bloggingcode.org, and created a badge that sites can display if they want to link to that code of conduct.
Oh great. A never-stable, always-moving target that me and you fuckers will be expected to adhere to if we ever expect or hope to get a link from our betters. Can’t fucking wait for that motherfucker to spread like herpes on a Hilton sister.
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 othersWe define and determine what is “unacceptable content” on a case-by-case basis, and our definitions are not limited to this list.
See? See the back door that is already in the “code?” It’s the perfect wiggle room for not dealing with one incident while coming down like the hammer of God in another. Bloggers will be blackballed, others will never be questioned for the same behavior and the whole thing will devolve into a never-ending battle of no-sex-getting geek assholes that hold the keys to the kingdom of big-traffic links.
Two words, Tim: Fuck off. I’ll follow that up with good old-fashioned common sense: No one will ever agree on just what the rules should be, no one will actually follow them, the very few that do will find them being used against them and ultimately too restrictive, and of course the last: Who the fuck are you to decide what proper conduct is on my blog? Don’t like what goes on here? There’s an X in the corner of your browser. Fucking use it, you officious prick.
(Was that over the top at all? I can hardly tell anymore.)
Dialing back the viciousness for a moment, we need this like we need a hole in the head. Self-censorship, tone, decorum or anything else about the style of writing in a given blog is the domain of the individual who owns that blog, not some group, voluntary or not.
Posted by JimK at 01:46 AM on April 10, 2007
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#2 Posted by Capmeister 
on 04/10 at 09:12 AM -
Can’t bring myself to care. I’d never be part of it. The purpose of my site is to voice my views. Nothing else. I let people comment, but the site is about me and my philosophy. No one else’s, including people who want some code.
#3 Posted by witchndigger on 04/10 at 09:29 AM -
Didn’t some group try this once? Only it was blogger code of ethics?
#4 Posted by Drumwaster on 04/10 at 11:34 AM -
Can we put up a “New York Times: Go Fuck Yourselves” badge?
#5 Posted by GripeBoy on 04/10 at 03:20 PM -
I fucking hate these manners pricks. Get out if you can’t handle it.
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Yup, that’s blatant weasel-room there. That’s basically coming out and saying they’re going to try and force whoever’s stupid enough to try and subscribe to their little code of conduct to post just how they want.
Post something they disagree with? It’s “offensive”, “knowingly false”, or “misrepresents another person”. Post a story showing up some public figure they like? You’re “invading their privacy”.
Anyone that puts that little “code of conduct” badge on their blog deserves exactly what it brings down on them.