U.S. President Barack Obama (2014) acknowledged the emerging influence of blogging [eg. tweeting & content-sharing] upon society by saying
"if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions,
with no serious fact-checking,
no serious attempts to put stories in context, then what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding".
with no serious fact-checking,
no serious attempts to put stories in context, then what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding".
Tim O'Reilly and others came up with a list of seven proposed ideas (oreilly.com):
1. Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.
2. Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.
3. Consider eliminating anonymous comments.
4. Ignore the trolls.
5. Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an intermediary who can do so.
6. If you know someone who is behaving badly, tell them so.
7. Don't say anything online that you wouldn't say in person.
