The author raised an important issue and
described how to get rid of hostile behaviours and individuals from online
community. The article is eye opening; especially for new bloggers, it explains
ways that can be used to remove bad manners from our online communities. It
provides several proven techniques that could solve potential unsocial conducts.
It provides real life examples that can be used to eliminate unacceptable
behaviours from our online community. I have learned from this article if we
could not address improper behaviours in our online community, it may disable
and dysfunction the main purpose of the community.
I have joined Yahoo online news
community for the purpose of community report assignment. Yahoo has guidelines to post comments. The first resolution advises users to be respectful each
other. However, I noticed a lot of fights. To participate in this community,
users needs create account to post any comments. They can post, reply, report
abuse or thumbs down, or thumbs up on other comments. As we see in the picture
below, a user name "RedPatch70" got 6 thumbs down for his attacks on
Yahoo.
Yea I get that Yahoo and other sites have rules and guidelines before signing up, but MySpace, Facebook and other online communities have become very popular over the last year. They are the newest way for young people (and others) to meet others with similar interests but they are also very scary (at least to me).
ReplyDeleteMySpace advises users to be careful what they post and has all kinds of rules, but how many of the users between the ages of 10 and 25 even bother to look at those rules? Young people are very computer savvy nowadays but still do not realize that posting the tiniest bit of information can expose who they are and where they live/work or play! Even if the user doesn't post any personal information, sometimes their friends post things that could led to disaster. Then there is also "friend hopping" where you find someone that you know and look at their friends pictures, which leads to finding other friends by simply clicking on their pictures. My 18 year old brother recently had one of his friends post a message that said something like "Hey so you are back working at "so and so" (not going to say it here)saw you leaving "blah blah shopping center" the other night. My brother was really ticked off and blocked him from posting on his space anymore and a bonus is that he watches more closely now what friends post to him and has as many things as he can, now set to private.
There have been a huge number of sexual predators arrested lately who have used places like Facebook and MySpace as a sort of "online catalog" for finding young victims. And if you spend even a few minutes browsing though MySpace you will find many, many sexually explicit or half naked pictures posted of both young males and females...some holding guns, liquor and even drugs!
Online communities should be monitored more closely.
I think that one extremely important part of online communities is being able to report any abuse from other people in that community. Like you said, yahoo has a report abuse button as well as a dislike button. There was a few sites I went on that explained how if a person gets reported enough times they will be banned from whichever site they are associating on.
ReplyDeleteBy being able to report someone who is targeting you in a negative manner, you are looking out for yourself as well as future victims in your community.
Having the ability to report abuse is a important feature on websites. It is important to be able to ask questions without others trolling or just attacking people in general
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