Comments on: Blogger’s Code of Conduct http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:10:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Wellons http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/comment-page-1/#comment-12015 Chris Wellons Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:22:18 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/#comment-12015 Here in Howard County, Maryland, there is a campaign being run by the public libraries called <a href="http://www.choosecivility.org/" rel="nofollow">Choose Civility</a>. They promote it by handing out these green bumper magnets for free, so you see them everywhere here. It's probably on every third car. It's a lot like that silly badge image here. I thought it was laughable in the same way as this "Blogger's Code of Conduct". The principle on their list that I think really stands out as being stupid is "Respect others' opinions". Maybe I'm just reading it too literally. But one of the biggest things of all is the hypocrisy of it. You see these magnets on people's cars, but their behavior on the road is adverse to the principles they claim to be promoting.

Here in Howard County, Maryland, there is a campaign being run by the public libraries called Choose Civility. They promote it by handing out these green bumper magnets for free, so you see them everywhere here. It’s probably on every third car. It’s a lot like that silly badge image here.

I thought it was laughable in the same way as this “Blogger’s Code of Conduct”. The principle on their list that I think really stands out as being stupid is “Respect others’ opinions”. Maybe I’m just reading it too literally.

But one of the biggest things of all is the hypocrisy of it. You see these magnets on people’s cars, but their behavior on the road is adverse to the principles they claim to be promoting.

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]]> By: Coral http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/comment-page-1/#comment-4231 Coral Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:47:26 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/#comment-4231 Hi, I got me a badge !!! It took many minutes of intensive slogging to achieve this accolade. A blogging FAQ booklet will be available, for a small fee, upon request. Coral www.coralmusic.blogspot.com

Hi,

I got me a badge !!! It took many minutes of intensive slogging to achieve this accolade. A blogging FAQ booklet will be available, for a small fee, upon request.

Coral

http://www.coralmusic.blogspot.com

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]]> By: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/comment-page-1/#comment-4020 Luke Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:28:09 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/#comment-4020 Very good point!

Very good point!

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]]> By: Craig Betts http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/comment-page-1/#comment-4019 Craig Betts Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:18:46 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/04/09/bloggers-code-of-conduct/#comment-4019 "Badges? We don't need no steenkin badges!" Putting that badge up is going to invite trouble, not get rid of it. It's kinda like making a post that states your server is unhackable . . . and is going to invite someone up to the challenge. Best to just not say anything and impose the controls you believe in.

“Badges? We don’t need no steenkin badges!”

Putting that badge up is going to invite trouble, not get rid of it. It’s kinda like making a post that states your server is unhackable . . . and is going to invite someone up to the challenge. Best to just not say anything and impose the controls you believe in.

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