{"id":1236,"date":"2007-04-02T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2007-04-10T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:23:48","slug":"oreilly-on-blogger-code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"O’Reilly on Blogger Code of Conduct {*Update 2*}"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bit off-topic, but I happened to catch a post on O’Reilly Radar that hits home for me. The post is titled “Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct” (Link)<\/a>. Up until a couple of days ago I thought such discussions were mostly unnecessary; much of what he says I already employ on this blog. The law seems pretty clear to me. In particular, however, I wanted to focus on two of the bullets on the list.
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\n1. Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The relatively recent controversy regarding IAVRT is a good example of how I’ve been handling this, I think. I hope. I received quite a bit of attention when I posted my doubts about that organization, but as should be evident, I made significant effort to not cross the legal boundary separating speculative conjecture from statements of fact.<\/p>\n

While some of the people commenting here weren’t as careful, I made an effort to correct them when they, in my opinion, stepped over that line. For me, it just makes sense that if I’m hosting someone else’s words, I bear some<\/em> responsibility for them. I may not own them, but I do feel an obligation to set the record straight as best I can without being too controlling.<\/p>\n

Read my posts regarding IAVRT (reLink 1<\/a>, reLink 2<\/a>) and if you feel I’ve made mistakes, feel free to explain where you think I’ve erred. I’m not a journalist by trade, so I’m still learning. And unfortunately, those sites I read whose content is, in fact, managed by “journalists”, don’t seem to me to provide especially good examples to follow.<\/p>\n

And just as a matter of disclosure, know that there are some behind the scenes proceedings regarding IAVRT. Don’t worry about me, I’m fine. However, I’m glad I made the effort. Hopefully I’ll be able to share some additional information in a future post.<\/p>\n

2. Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really like this idea. While I’ve made it clear to others when I consider their comments to be out of bounds – especially when their stated goal isn’t so much to engage in conversation as it is to market themselves – I could see where some integrated statement would make sense. I hope to upgrade this blog in the near future, and when I do I’ll be looking at adding guidelines. In the meantime people should know that I will continue to insert my own corrections in their comments as I deem necessary and prudent to hopefully ensure that while we all express ourselves forcefully, we don’t cross into the realm of defamation and libel.<\/p>\n

{Update: Follow-up post on O’Reilly Radar – Link<\/a>}<\/p>\n

{Update: More links that might be of interest:<\/p>\n

– Blogger Code of Conduct: the tyranny of good intentions<\/a>
\n– Blogger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Code of Conduct: a Dissection<\/a><\/p>\n

I won’t post any more links. If there’s more to say – and there may be when I have time – I’ll post another entry.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bit off-topic, but I happened to catch a post on O’Reilly Radar that hits home for me. The post is titled “Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct” (Link). Up until a couple of days ago I thought such … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}