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Thanks, priestofmemory: the “Civil Anyway” Badge

Blogger priestofmemory has a great post about the ongoing Blogger Code of Conduct flap. He’s of the same mind as yours truly on the issue, and was kind enough to create a badge to symbolize his adherence to a reasonable, un-regulated, self-applied code of conduct: no nanny badges, just a declaration that you’re an intelligent, reasonable, non-troll.

I wear the badge at the top of my right-hand column. If you’d like to do the same, warm up your right-click-save as - here’s the badge:

And feel free to link it to:

http://techfold.com/2007/04/09/an-alternative-to-oreillys-politeness-manifesto-the-un-code/

…which is where priestofmemory pointed his, or:

http://priestofmemory.livejournal.com/57566.html

…which is his post.

Either way, the message gets across that its OK to be a nice normal person without adhereing to anyone’s arbitrary assumptions of what “nice” and “normal” are. Just to quote quickly from my original post, here’s my “Simple Test” declaration:

THE BLOGGERS CODE OF CONDUCT: A Simple Test

1. “Do online as you would in person.”
Before every post or comment you make, ask yourself whether you would be comfortable shouting it out loud from a well-lit lectern in an auditorium full of 300 people that included, friends, family, and a whole lot of strangers. If the answer is “No,” revise and retest before posting.

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