{"id":2363,"date":"2007-04-10T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/civility-offsets.html"},"modified":"2007-04-10T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T16:45:00","slug":"civility-offsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/civility-offsets.html","title":{"rendered":"Civility Offsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappleface.com\/?p=2566\">This<\/a> is a great idea and I hope it catches on because it allows you to be as nasty as you want and as long as you pay, you don&#8217;t have to feel bad about it.  Thank you, Al Gore and other environmentalists for giving Scott Ott such a great idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A draft proposal circulating in the so-called blogosphere would allow family-friendly blogs to sell &#8220;civility offsets&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/09\/technology\/09blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">vitriolic<\/a> bloggers who prefer to pay for  &#8220;nastiness indulgences&#8221; rather than to tame their bitter tirades. <\/p>\n<p>Advocates say that unlike a proposed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/draft_bloggers_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">blogger code of conduct<\/a>,&#8221; the new civility offsets will not slash the number of blatant death threats or reduce comparisons between President George Bush and the common chimpanzee, but they may <a href=\"http:\/\/blogher.org\/community-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\">reduce<\/a> the momentary twinges of guilt experienced by some vicious, vindictive and vitriolic bloggers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scott Ott is the clearinghouse for civility offsets, so go pay him if you call a Democrat a bad name this week or lose your temper with a commenter.<br \/>\nBy the way, since <a href=\"http:\/\/mylifeunderthesun.blogspot.com\/\">my other blog<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chookooloonks.com\/kindblog\/\">king blog<\/a> and filled with love, happiness, joy and absolutely no political discourse, it offsets this blog.  And if that wasn&#8217;t enough I earn a special dispensation for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingchicks.blogspot.com\/\">Blogging Chicks<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianblogosphere.blogspot.com\/index.html\">Christian Blogosphere<\/a> because I help other bloggers improve the visibility of their blogs.  So, I&#8217;m covered for all my snotty comments about the Democrats and the Rinos and if I want to rant about Dobson or Robertson, I&#8217;m good to go knowing that I&#8217;ve plenty of interest to spend.  I even have enough to respond to o&#8217;brien a few more times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blogs\" rel=\"tag\">blogs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blogger+code+of+conduct\" rel=\"tag\">blogger code of conduct<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great idea and I hope it catches on because it allows you to be as nasty as you want and as long as you pay, you don&#8217;t have to feel bad about it. 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