Me.
I appreciate civility, but I trust myself to determine what I consider acceptable or not without relying on Tim O'Reilly's Blogging Code of Conduct or anyone else's arbitrary rules. How I deal with incivility on my blog is also up to me. I may respond- and you better believe if a harassing comment is made publicly, so will be my response- or I may delete it, no justification required.
On other people's blogs, I'm free to move on and read something else if I so desire- so are you. Simple.
No civility badge here: it's unnecessary. Nor will there be a goofy 'anything goes' dynamite badge.
How about a call for common sense instead? That, I might get behind.
One year ago at TTaT: Wherein the gutter gets the best of me
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You know, I read a thread on something about this the other day and was STUNNED. Why on earth would anyone freely adopt a set of arbitrary rules limiting their own self expression. That's like telling Picasso that cubism is off limits (although I could get behind that one). Or telling Monet - No Claud, no fuzzy lines. Or Prince - dude, only pants that have asses.
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