Dealing With Venom on the Web

theodp writes "In a world where nastiness online can erupt and go global overnight, BusinessWeek finds Corporate America woefully unprepared and offers suggestions for how to cope, including shelling out $10,000 to companies like ReputationDefender.com to promote the info you want and suppress the news you don't. And in what must be a sign of the Apocalypse, BW holds Slashdot's moderation system up as a model for maintaining civility in message boards."

Comments

Slashdot moderation maintains civility?

[Compact Dick]

Clearly, they must be new here.

Re:Slashdot moderation maintains civility?

[Anonymous Coward]

Going by your UID and his, I'd say he's been here longer than there ever was a Digg.

Re:Slashdot moderation maintains civility?

[hobo sapiens]

As soon as slash dot "dumbs down" there will be more morons and illiterates here as opposed to Answers on Yahoo

And what, you are here scouting it out for them?

Re:Slashdot moderation maintains civility?

[Eli Gottlieb]

I'm a teenager, you insensitive clod!

And I don't wouldn't read Digg if you put a gun to my head.

Re:Slashdot moderation maintains civility?

[DG]

What's "Digg"?

Is that a new protocol or something?

I tried to find it in Archie and Veronica, but all I found were some old DigDug ROMS.

Is there an RFC I've missed? I admit I'm a little behind on comp.sys.networking these days.

Perhaps one of these newfangled Gopher links?

DG

Re:If there's one thing I learned from Spider-Man

[Anonymous Coward]

Sonic Firewall covers both of his weaknesses, so it's really the only smart choice if you're a Spider-man out there in the world wide web.

Why *I* like the /. moderation system.

[The Living Fractal]

You'd be amazed what kind of crazy-ass posts you can find if you browse at -1.

TLF

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

My biggest beef with the Slashdot moderation system is the overwhelming majority of posts that are modded high and "funny." It's such a letdown when you want to read good replies only to find that 80+% of the +4s and +5s are "Funny."

Information that you don't approve of

[noidentity]

"Chances are there is information about you and your family on the Internet that you don't approve of. It's time you do something about it." (from reputationdefender.com)

The current administration must love this site! On a more paradoxical note, I bet there's nothing but positive reviews of this website on the web, at least if they're doing their job correctly.

Venom? On the Web? Quick, call M.A.S.K!

[Anonymous Coward]

ma-ma-ma-ma-mask!

No-one knows what lies behind the masquerade!

ma-ma-ma-ma-mask!

Don't you cum into my gatorade!

No, I'm New Here

[New Here]

No, I'm New Here

Re:NO!

[ozmanjusri]

A lot of good comments go unnoticed because they get a 0 score (for being ACs), while an entire ocean of useless babble get automatically promoted to +1 (registered users) or +2 (karma loaded jerks).

I am a karma loaded jerk, you insensitive clod!

Reed Richards has no problems with Venom

[Bootle]

Just bust out that sonic gun!

Re:No help for smaller businesses.

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet you have a record store that sells Christian music, don't you? Is this about the guy you kicked out of the store? You damn fake!

Re:Slashdot moderation maintains civility? [EDIT]

[csguy314]

While there are imbeciles for the most part here too, the Slashdot crowd tends to be in the industry and/or college and seems a tad experienced in the ways of the world.

Sorry, just clarifying the sentence for you.
And comparing /.ers with diggers? That's like comparing six year olds with two year olds. Or six year olds with Fark-ers. Or six year olds with Fox News.
Clearly the six year olds are more intelligent, but they're still six years old...

What the smeg are these smegging smeggers smegging

[SlappyBastard]

Civility my ass and manly side boobs! I spit upon BusinessWeek and all its stakeholders.