[WikiEN-l] Try to Play Nice, Wicked Wide Web

[Fred Bauder]

'As a Web 2.0 site or a blog becomes more popular, a growing percentage of its reader contributions devolve into vitriol, backstabbing and name-calling (not to mention Neanderthal spelling and grammar). Participants address each other as “idiot” and “moron” (and worse) the way correspondents of old might have used “sir” or “madam.”'

"One thing is clear, however: the uncivil participants are driving away the civil ones. The result is an acceleration of the cycle, and an increasing proportion of hostile remarks."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/weekinreview/31pogue.html

Fred