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Dealing With Venom on the Web

Posted by Zonk on from the not-the-guy-with-the-symbiont dept.

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."

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  1. Slashdot moderation maintains civility? by Compact+Dick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly, they must be new here.

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    1. Re:Slashdot moderation maintains civility? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  3. Re:Slashdot moderation maintains civility? [EDIT] by csguy314 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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