Comments on: A Code Of Conduct – Why Bother? http://informedspeculation.com/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/ Refunds Cheerfully Given To All Who Disagree Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: too many steves http://informedspeculation.com/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-277668 too many steves Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:57:27 +0000 http://decision08.net/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/#comment-277668 To which I say, "Grow up.". I'm all for civility in discourse, but would choose a much different approach: simply ignore those for whom incivility is SOP. If I were still 12 years old I would say "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me." or, even, "I'm rubber and you're glue, everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you.". If I were really inflamed I would include exclamation points. Then there is the question of who is arbiter of this "Code of Conduct"? Can we vote on what is and is not allowed? Will it be a sort of Geneva Conventions for blogospheric warfare? Nope, count me among those hurling rotten vegetables at this idea. To which I say, “Grow up.”. I’m all for civility in discourse, but would choose a much different approach: simply ignore those for whom incivility is SOP. If I were still 12 years old I would say “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.” or, even, “I’m rubber and you’re glue, everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you.”. If I were really inflamed I would include exclamation points.

Then there is the question of who is arbiter of this “Code of Conduct”? Can we vote on what is and is not allowed? Will it be a sort of Geneva Conventions for blogospheric warfare?

Nope, count me among those hurling rotten vegetables at this idea.

]]> By: nettie http://informedspeculation.com/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-277499 nettie Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:04:50 +0000 http://decision08.net/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/#comment-277499 aw, come on. who wants to take all the fun out of it? aw, come on. who wants to take all the fun out of it?

]]> By: Gwedd http://informedspeculation.com/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-277001 Gwedd Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:58:16 +0000 http://decision08.net/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/#comment-277001 Mark, Well, I'd support such a device, but only after the MSM adopt a code of fact-checking and honesty in reporting. The least they could do is remove the bias log from their own eye before complaining about the mote in the blogger's. Respects, Mark,

Well, I’d support such a device, but only after the MSM adopt a code of fact-checking and honesty in reporting.

The least they could do is remove the bias log from their own eye before complaining about the mote in the blogger’s.

Respects,

]]> By: Dennis http://informedspeculation.com/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-276891 Dennis Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:34:44 +0000 http://decision08.net/2007/04/12/a-code-of-conduct-why-bother/#comment-276891 I'm kind of baffled why this is getting any attention at all. Your first paragraph sums up the problem perfectly. I'm all in favor of more civility on the Web, but really, other than asking people to think twice before they launch their meanest, darkest thoughts into the ether, what else can be done that might be effective without being self-evidently unconstitutional? I’m kind of baffled why this is getting any attention at all. Your first paragraph sums up the problem perfectly. I’m all in favor of more civility on the Web, but really, other than asking people to think twice before they launch their meanest, darkest thoughts into the ether, what else can be done that might be effective without being self-evidently unconstitutional?

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