etiquette

expectations

redistributing

syntaxes

suggested reading:

• Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold

  Anthropological look into mobile phone culture around the world

• When you don't want to be Facebook friends by MSNBC

  Article that interviewed me about how to handle expectations when it comes to friending on social networks

Anti-patterns that fuel bad behaviors

• Friend requests
  • Bullying your way into an accepted friend requests make you lose more friends than gain

• Enter your other site login and password
  • Documented on Microformats social network anti-patterns

From Tantek:

do not reward bad behavior with attention.

• "Don't create super-villains" - another quote from @hchamp at AEA SF 2008.

Perhaps by that, don't "make an example" of a bad actor in a community, because that "making an example" gives them attention, which may be the primary aim of their misbehavior. If anything, practice the opposite, that is, ignore when possible.

• See Positive Communities: http://tantek.pbwiki.com/PositiveCommunities

• See how to protect your community from poisonous people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-3E8pyjFo

emoticons - you can't read emotion through text, formal acceptable way of how something should be read, more punctuation than anything else.

Return to main page