{"id":10906,"date":"2007-11-15T01:59:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/15\/how-to-handle-web-rudeness\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T01:59:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T22:59:14","slug":"how-to-handle-web-rudeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/15\/how-to-handle-web-rudeness\/","title":{"rendered":"How to handle web rudeness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Web Worker Daily<\/a> asks an interesting question – “How do you handle web rudeness?<\/em><\/a>”<\/p>\n

This is probably a nobrainer for people who have been on the web for some time, but newcomers, especially those to the blogosphere and the world of forums, are often puzzled.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s very easy to insult someone on the web.\u00c2\u00a0 Pick a forum or a blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Write a comment.\u00c2\u00a0 You’re done.\u00c2\u00a0 And sad fact of life is that many people do just that.<\/p>\n

Having a blog (albeit not the most popular) for a few years now, I’ve seen some of that rudeness and some of those insults.\u00c2\u00a0 Both private and public.\u00c2\u00a0 And here is how I go about them.<\/p>\n

First of all, I treat both private and public insults equally. I don’t differentiate.\u00c2\u00a0 If I can think of the way to make fun of it, I respond publicly. If I can’t, I just delete and ignore the comment.\u00c2\u00a0 If I get two or more insults in a row\u00c2\u00a0 from the same person, I ban, blacklist, and filter the originating username, IP address, and email.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I don’t care.<\/p>\n

My thinking is that there is enough crap going on already, to take some more from the Web.\u00c2\u00a0 I consider the Internet to be the best thing since… since… since… since the beginning of times.\u00c2\u00a0 If something bad is coming out\u00c2\u00a0 of it, I either convert it into good (humor, smile, good mood), or I totally get rid of it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s as simple as that.<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong>: Just to make something crystal clear – with non-insulting comments I respond in the same scope.\u00c2\u00a0 If the message was private, I reply in private. If it was public, I reply in public.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes, if I feel like the public can benefit from a private discussion, I’d ask the permission of the other party to publish the conversation.\u00c2\u00a0 To be on the safe side, I’d often forward the preview of the post too, to clarify what exactly will be published.\u00c2\u00a0 Insulting comments never get a private reply – it’s either nothing, or a public joke.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Web Worker Daily asks an interesting question – “How do you handle web rudeness?” This is probably a nobrainer for people who have been on the web for some time, but newcomers, especially those to the blogosphere and the world of forums, are often puzzled.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s very easy to insult someone on the web.\u00c2\u00a0 Pick … Continue reading How to handle web rudeness?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[29,599,764,1147,79,124],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-blogging","tag-comments","tag-internet","tag-netiquette","tag-people","tag-web"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t