Blog Mafia

9 April 2007

As a continuation to the rubbish that was started last week, Tim O’Reilly and friends – with a little help from the New York Times – have put together a “Blogger’s Code of Conduct”, the aim of which seems to be to make the blogging community a better place.

Give me a break.

Blogger’s Code of Conduct Wiki

I think the easiest way to dissect it is in point by point form. Normally I don’t like to resort to such simple and obvious tactics, but when up against such rampant and self publicising stupidity, needs must.

1. We take responsibility for our own words and reserve the right to restrict comments on our blog that do not conform to basic civility standards.

I can censor anyone who doesn’t agree with me.

Moreover, if you actually obeyed the fine print of this point to the letter, you wouldn’t be able to accept any comments at all as it covers pretty much anything anyone would ever say.

2. We won’t say anything online that we wouldn’t say in person.

As long as I’m a jackass in real life, I can still be one on the internet…

3. If tensions escalate, we will connect privately before we respond publicly.

Unless I’ll get good traffic by blogging about it first.

4. When we believe someone is unfairly attacking another, we take action.

Paging the fire burning mob. You’re needed in the ground floor lobby.

5. We do not allow anonymous comments.

As having a hotmail account is a sure fire proof of identity.

6. We ignore the trolls.

We ignore people that disagree with us.

7. We encourage blog hosts to enforce more vigorously their terms of service.

We encourage blog hosts to take down sites that we don’t like.

UPDATE 11/04/07: I love this: http://www.blogadvisorysystem.com/