Comments on: Handling Porcupines, Trolls, and Other Online Vermin (Series Index)

By: View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting

View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:57:44 +0000

The inaugural Business Blog Roundtable: Apr 25, 2005: Discussing posting frequencies
bbr number 1_2.mp3 Contentious » Blogging Style- The Basic Posting Fo What is best practice for scheduling posts?If you’re not going to …

By: View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting

View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:55:04 +0000

By: Game Savant

Game Savant — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:45:01 +0000

Online Vermin
Quick blog recommendation: Contentious : Handling Online Vermin Interesting, well written, and fun read about different classifications of online vermin.

By: Knowledge Jolt with Jack

Knowledge Jolt with Jack — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:21:34 +0000

This would be a great business if
“You know, this would be a great business if it weren’t for having to deal with people all the time,” from a piece on Dealing with Difficult People. Who really needs to change?

By: Tom Hemingway

Tom Hemingway — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:23:51 +0000

Enjoyed reading your observations. It seems to me that timing is a big part of the problem. In real time conversations we have nonverbal cues (intonation, body language and such) that remind us of the negotiation aspects of dialog and we pace our conversations accordingly, slowing things down or taking a break when things get heated, picking up again when we’re ready (maybe days or weeks later). On the internet we don’t get those cues about how the conversation is going, say too much too soon and in the wrong way, and act like vermin. I realize there are some hostile types out there, but I also think a lot is from negligence, impatience, forgetting that engaging in dialog (as contrasted with simply posting)needs lots of time for thought, restatements, negotiation, and building of relationships.

By: View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting

View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:10:25 +0000

Walkabout Podcast: Part 3 Blogs for Community discussion
Talking about using blogs to foster community discussions on contentious issues especially. If you are interested in setting up a community blog, please visit My …

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 20:56:11 +0000

Talking about Contentious » Handling Porcupines, Trolls, and Other Online Vermin (Series Index)

By: WWWorker - Sascha Carlin

WWWorker - Sascha Carlin — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:30:33 +0000

Der Menschliche Faktor
Contrary to popular opinion, the internet is not really about technology. It�s about people, specifically how people communicate. Contentious � Handling Porcupines, Trolls, and Other Online Vermin (Series Index) Eigentlich hatte ich gehofft, dass man …

By: Common Craft

Common Craft — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 03:03:50 +0000

Online Vermin and Refactoring Weblogs
There�s a lot going on out there and I wish I had more time to take it all in. I�m about to leave town tomorrow morning for a bachelor party so I�m posting the bare minimum here. A couple of things that caught my eye recently: Amy Gahran has been posti…

By: Judy Murdoch

Judy Murdoch — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:21:25 +0000

A very wise and insightful article. Should be required reading for anyone who wants to communicate effectively online.