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How many times has this happened to you? You’re on your favourite tech blog reading about a new cool tech gadget but your eyes drift inadvertently down into the user comments. The comments are full of fanboys professing undying support for their device while claiming everyone else is an idiot. Random trolls are throwing around racial slurs or homophobic garbage. Know-it-alls claim that they had the idea for the product 10 years ago and only an idiot wouldn’t have thought of it sooner. Other geniuses claim “your stupid.” You move your mouse to the window close button and vow never to read user comments again.
I’m taking a small departure from talking about iOS development today and I want to talk about a new website I’m launching.
I spend a lot of time on the internet. Between twitter, reading blog posts, reading tech and game news, and learning new stuff, a big part of my day is spent online. One of the things I’m constantly frustrated by is the level of discourse I see taking place on blogs and forums. Racism, sexism, homophobia, and general bigotry is rampant online. I used to get so angry reading the user comments on CBC News stories that I had a friend of mine write a script for my browser that just removes them from the site entirely when I browse it (I’m much less angry now). 😉
After seeing several friends attacked online by various internet idiots I had the idea to form some kind of organization whose goal is to improve the quality of online discussions. An impossible mission, of this I am aware. However, I felt like it’s worth a shot. With this in mind, I have created SocBID.org.
SocBID is The Society for the Betterment of Internet Discourse. Its goal is to encourage people to treat each other with respect when posting comments online. I have outlined 5 simple guidelines for people to use when posting online. The guidelines are common sense, but it can’t hurt to state them outright. If you see someone being a jerk on your website, feel free to politely direct them to SocBID and encourage them to participate in the discussion in a meaningful way. If this is something you also care about, take the SocBID pledge not to be an online jerk and help make the internet a better place.
Owen
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Attempting the Impossible
December 12th, 2010
How many times has this happened to you? You’re on your favourite tech blog reading about a new cool tech gadget but your eyes drift inadvertently down into the user comments. The comments are full of fanboys professing undying support for their device while claiming everyone else is an idiot. Random trolls are throwing around racial slurs or homophobic garbage. Know-it-alls claim that they had the idea for the product 10 years ago and only an idiot wouldn’t have thought of it sooner. Other geniuses claim “your stupid.” You move your mouse to the window close button and vow never to read user comments again.
I’m taking a small departure from talking about iOS development today and I want to talk about a new website I’m launching.
I spend a lot of time on the internet. Between twitter, reading blog posts, reading tech and game news, and learning new stuff, a big part of my day is spent online. One of the things I’m constantly frustrated by is the level of discourse I see taking place on blogs and forums. Racism, sexism, homophobia, and general bigotry is rampant online. I used to get so angry reading the user comments on CBC News stories that I had a friend of mine write a script for my browser that just removes them from the site entirely when I browse it (I’m much less angry now). 😉
After seeing several friends attacked online by various internet idiots I had the idea to form some kind of organization whose goal is to improve the quality of online discussions. An impossible mission, of this I am aware. However, I felt like it’s worth a shot. With this in mind, I have created SocBID.org.
SocBID is The Society for the Betterment of Internet Discourse. Its goal is to encourage people to treat each other with respect when posting comments online. I have outlined 5 simple guidelines for people to use when posting online. The guidelines are common sense, but it can’t hurt to state them outright. If you see someone being a jerk on your website, feel free to politely direct them to SocBID and encourage them to participate in the discussion in a meaningful way. If this is something you also care about, take the SocBID pledge not to be an online jerk and help make the internet a better place.
Owen
This entry was posted on Sunday, December 12th, 2010 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Misc. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.