Mar 05
08
Advisory
You know that I always “preaching” about Netiquette in every opportunies. It is not that Netiquitte is THAT important but let see, it is more like “I rub your back, you rub mine” kind of thing. It just make your net-life easier, manageable and organizable. In the end it is just a piece of advice to make your net-life better, it’s not for me, it’s for your own good.
Netiquette used to be a thing that valued highly in the net-based community. That’s how we paid respect to each other. But I guess it was old and dying “rule” now. New net-generation doesn’t need that kind of rule. They are know things better now. They did. Or so they thought. You know what happened if you advise people to use netiquette nowadays? You’ll get this one:
Hey Boy you goody goody two shoes! Shut yer trap and stop squealing like a self righteous sissy! This ain’t no netetiquette mailing list! any more comments and i think you should do it through personal channels, is that ok with you Mr oh-so-Intelegent and done-everything-right by-its-etiquette ? Furthermore, i think none of us need a lesson of netiquette from you. GET A LIFE..
So Netiquette only applicable in the netiquette mailing list. Hmm, that’s like saying “Be a good man only when you are praying… after praying it is OK to punch people around”#[1].
And about “Get a life” part, well, this IS my life =D. My life is revolved around making the net-experience better. That’s why I am a web standards evangelist, that’s why I am insisting on netiquette, that’s why I am taking “User Interface” as my major thing and all of that things. It is because I care for the USERS and that means YOU.
This is not the first time I get this kind of respond. So I think the user nowadays are really smart and don’t need any advices anymore. So should I stop my concern about the user? Afterall they are thinking they know better. Case opened. I am reporting, you will be the judge.
[1]: Credited to Amal
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8 Comments
netiket.. masih susah diterapin apalagi di Indonesia. wong orang2nya aja gak pada punya etika dalam kehidupan sehari-hari apalagi cuma berinternet ria… heheheee
aduh, curhat bow ;)
indres: iya. tipe yang begini gak tau enaknya diapain =).
bow: yeah. tipikal banget ya?
ninit: bukan curhat. ini general kok, sering banget ketemu makhluk2 model begini. =P
yah.. jadi kliatan kualitasnya… :D viss ah…
wah, baru tau gue, ada yang kurang ajar gitu inpait ke id-gmail aja :D
emang milis apa sih?
To paraphrase an overused idiom, “Every story has (at least) two sides.”
One side that I personally think you didn’t successfully show here, is that you, yourself, were involved in a flame war in the same mailing list, beforehand.
A flame war. Which is, as I recall, is not really in tune with netiquette. If you don’t recall. I may be wrong, but to me, saying sentences like “ah, so be it then. netetiquette is not applied to you ;)
fine. now i know what kind of person i am dealing with.” sounds like a direct attack to a person’s character. Not his idea, or his opinion. And attacking a character, if I’m not mistaken, is a flame.
So maybe (because I’m not the person who was saying that stuff you quoted, I’m just another passive member of that same list) this person just got ticked off because you didn’t practice what you preached.
I’m not saying that this makes that person justifiable in his act. No. He still shouldn’t do that.
What I’m saying is, when I’m reading this, I get the sense that you’re making yourself an infallible character among people that don’t care.
And that doesn’t seem right to me. But, hey, it’s your site. You can say anything on it. As a visitor, I can only comment.
isman: didn’t a person’s character defined by their opinion or idea? character’s assasination. phew.
anyway, have to admit it that it was a ‘flamebait’ ;) but ‘flame war’, er I don’t think that it went that far.
indres @ March 9, 2005 11:47 PM
Sabar Mas… yah org memang macam2 tipenya