Internet titans took over the network code of conduct

Perhaps, future Internet historians will someday mark these days, as the days of the beginning of the blogosphere’s transformation into something much more organized, constructive and decent. And maybe they will not. But the idea to create a single code of conduct for blogs, invented by Tim O'Reilly (Tim O'Reilly), taken up by Jimmy Wales and developed by the visitors of the corporate blog of the creators of Wikipedia, is at least worthy of attention and detailed consideration.

His appeal to bloggers from all over the world to finally get together and develop some convenient, simple rules governing acceptable moral frameworks for both the posts themselves and for comments on them, O'Reilly read out after the incident with his colleague and girlfriend Kathy Sierra (Kathy Sierra), blog which swept a wave of gross insults and threats. The rules he proposed for the most part have long been on the lips of the network public, but supporters of rational behavior on the Internet still have nothing to refer to in order not to explain their position every time.

O'Reilly initially proposed 7 rules, providing them with detailed explanations. But in this form, they still could not be used as a program document of the gathering movement, and here the help of numerous Wikipedia authors came in handy. And now, although work on the Code is still ongoing, the rules have acquired a fairly brief, digestible form. I think it will be useful to give their translation here. So,

Blogger Code of Conduct
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1. We are responsible for our own words and reserve the right to limit comments on our blog that do not comply with the basic rules of politeness.
   
   The actions that are considered to violate these rules are listed separately and include harassment, disclosure of personal information about someone without his consent, insult, threat, defamation, as well as copyright and trade secrets violations.
2. We will not say anything on the net that we wouldn’t say personally.
3. If the tension rises, before we respond publicly, we will contact the interviewer personally.
4. We will take action if we notice that someone is unjustly attacking another.
   The measures are to indicate (if possible personally) to the abuser at his mistake and inducing him to apologize. If he has passed on a threat, he should be informed to the competent authorities.
5. We support anonymous commenting.
   
   This rule most needs to be justified, therefore it is described in great detail and with examples. The main argument - those who have experienced the need to conceal their identity when publishing a comment, will understand.
6. We ignore the trolls .
7. We will contribute to the introduction of rules on blog hosting.
   
   Obviously, this is necessary in order to act on indifferent people.

It is proposed to advertise your support for this Code with the help of a special icon, about the design of which so far there is no consensus.

Whether this initiative will have a serious response among bloggers is a big question. But the fact that such well-known active personalities took it, inspires some hope that, through the hive's buzz, the blosseters will hear better yet unknown, but ingenious melodies.