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How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community

Cory Doctorow discusses the defusing of discussion trolls. Probably the best advice is "Discussion groups are like uranium: a little pile gives off a nice, warm glow, but if the pile gets bigger, it hits critical mass and starts a deadly meltdown." I'm not sure the methods of the "troll whisperer" he describes are really the way to go. I still think the best approach is to delete the offensive comments and ban the trolls. Cory Doctorow, InformationWeek, May 17, 2007. [Link] [Tags: none] [Previous][Next]

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Re: How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community

Anymouse, May 21, 2007

Hi,

After Tim O'Reilly proposed his Code of Conduct and badge system, I thought to myself, HEY, why didn't I think of that. What is the point of making all these detailed rules and gif and jpeg applications, then promoting their worth in the New York Times, the BBC, the Guardian and lots of other tabloid tattlers, only for the innovator to subsequently diss the idea in Wired Magazine?

Well, I went out and got my badge and lo and behold it attracted no end of trolls. I don't know if these were the whispering sorts. They didn't use capital letters at all.

http://tinyurl.com/2mrszy


As you will see from this link, I converse with my trolls if they are intelligent. I delete the ones that just post a smiley face or single syllables. I've even let in a bit of spam to prove that I'm not a fascist blogger.

http://tinyurl.com/37wxj5


Regards,
Coral


www.coralpoetry.blogspot.com
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