I can’t help thinking that this whole brouhaha over O’Reilly’s proposed “Blogger’s Code” is begging to be re-jiggered along the lines of that “Don’t rape her” meme from a while back.
So, my draft Blog Reader’s Code:
* If a blogger has a “feminine” pseudonym – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger says something you don’t like – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger disagrees with you publicly – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger has a photograph of herself on her blog – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger lets slip some detail of her life, like her real name or city – Don’t track her down and threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger allows anonymous comments on her blog – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
*If a blogger allows untraceable email addresses for her blog registration – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
*If a blogger has breasts – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger is a feminist – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger is successful in a traditionally-male field – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger isn’t online 24 hours a day to moderate comments – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger chooses not to use disemvowelling as a moderation strategy – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger doesn’t filter her email aggressively – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If you’re drumming up a vendetta against a blogger, and other people are agreeing and piling on to join your trollacious little campaign – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
* If a blogger doesn’t have a Civility Enforced badge on her blog – Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.
Again, add your own, as desired.
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Nice bloggy, can’t believe I just found it. Funny list, and yet at the same time profoundly… something or other which makes my eyelid twitch.
Perhaps you could generalize it to “Don’t threaten to rape *or* kill her.” Otherwise, can’t you just see the response? “But I only threatened to kill her!”
Okay, very black humor there.
I caught up with some blogs in my feed-reader last night, and Teresa Nielsen Hayden is, as usual, a beacon of reason on the whole moderation thing.
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tigtog: I like it.
Did you click on the link in the picture?
I did!
Purty, ain’t it?
I, erm, well – *beats internal fontmonster into submission*
Yes, it’s purty.
eta: I’m talking about the spacing on the allcaps font. I <span class='wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-heart' title='<3 your neon-sign font. <span class='wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-heart' title='<3 <span class='wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-heart' title='<3 <span class='wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-heart' title='<3 . (No, no, tip your head to the right, not the left! Hearts. Not scrotums.)
Tch tch. It is meant to be an hommage to a Middle English proclamation, which would have had even uglier fonts, I’m sure. So, are you with the editrix, and just want Garamond, hmmm?
I mis-spoke. It was the kernmonster, not the fontmonster. The font itself is just fine, honest! *backpedals furiously*
I <span class='wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-heart' title='<3 Garamond, too. The editrix is a woman of refined taste and other fabulosity.