Developing a Rule Strategy for Your Blog

If you have a Blog and lots of participants then perhaps you have considered rules to help guide the dialogues? Generally Blogs are places where concepts and ideas are discussed so you might even discuss the potential rules with those who will be participating on your Blog? For instance; What are your thoughts on the New Blog Rule Policy?

You might get some interesting answers back too such as; “The Policy is Okay as far as Policies Go? But are you sure you need a policy for this Blog?” If this is the case perhaps you need to ask yourself the question, are the rules really needed? How often is the Blog abused and how often do people attack others personal character.

You should never ask for input on what to add to rules and regulations, rather you should ask what could be removed. Why you ask? Well because fewer rules are actually better. Yes, the rules should be reduced to three main rules, like Isaac Asmiov's rules for Robots. Keep it simple and easy to remember;

1.) Be Nice, ie "golden rule" and no swear words

2.) Work hard to stay on topic without self-promoting.

3.) Only original comments here, do not post private emails, other people's work.

The more simplistic the better is my point and to that point one rule could be to use "Common Sense" as that would be the same as the 1-3 here. Of course common sense is pretty much a dying concept for over regulation, political correctness and over-lawyering.

So, in the end why bother to make rules at all? There are enough forums and blogs out their with similar guidelines and they are pretty standard, so? Why not just say; "This is a Blog" and we would expect you follow Common Sense and Standard Blog Etiquette?

I certainly hope this article is of interest to you and helps you with your rule making session. Fewer rules mean better flow of thought and therefore it makes sense to see if you cannot reduce the number of potential rules for the Blog before you start. And if you can get away with it, then simply wait to make a set of rules until there is a real issue. Perhaps this will help propel thought in 2007.

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