Imagine you and your peers are to establish your own (virtual) community,
or even that you are part of a voluntarily joined (virtual) community,
one you have some impact in potentially shaping:
what rules would you want? what rules would you need?
what kind of relationships, with or without rules, would you want/need?
how would you enforce them? how would you punish them?
Well.......some may argue that virtual space is not the same as physical space so why should rules even be considered??? However, because I am part of a virtual community myself (facebook) I will definitely stress that there NEEDS to be rules in virtual communities.
Although there are many users who are looking to join virtual communities to "escape" the physical world, there are many users, like myself, who are interested in just expanding their social network through virtual communities such as Facebook. Many of us still strive to be ourselves in virtual communities, thus rules enforced in physical communication settings should be enforced in virtual communication settings. They say, "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me," however for some, names hurt MORE! Because of this, guidelines enforcing appropriate online language need be applied.
Property rules need to be enforced as well. Individual users may post pictures of themselves and loves ones and I just don't feel that every, and any, person should be aloud to save and keep these photographs. With property rules comes privacy, thus saving someone else's pictures to do god knows what with it will turn into an issue of privacy. However, I'm yet to come up with a way that this would be able to enforced as ANYONE can save almost ANYTHING to their computers (in terms of pictures) ...and even if they can't right click and save that picture, the "print screen" command is still available via their keyboard, so this problem needs to be addressed. Everyone in the community should feel comfortable enough to believe that the information, pictures, or videos they post will not be stolen and tainted.
In terms of relationships, like any castle needs a king, every community needs a leader. The leader would have to be agreed upon by all individual members that belong to the community and should be open minded when issues and concerns are brought to their attention and they should be willing to address these issues and concerns so that members feel comfortable. A manual would also need to be designed for the leader so that all rules are applied equally to all members. Kind of like the "rule of law" .....sorta....but for the virtual world.
After reading, "A Rape In Cyberspace," it is clear that banning members only works for the short term, as they can just come back with another identity. When dealing with members who do not abide by the "terms of use agreement" set out for the virtual community, I think they should have some sort of "flag" or "notice" displayed across their profile in a banner style so that members know they are "troublesome."
Well, these would be some of the rules for my virtual community that I have come up with thus far....if I come up with more, I'll let you know, k? and if you have any ideas of your own, tell your people to call my people, k?
signed,
g.i.a.c.w
Well.......some may argue that virtual space is not the same as physical space so why should rules even be considered??? However, because I am part of a virtual community myself (facebook) I will definitely stress that there NEEDS to be rules in virtual communities.
Although there are many users who are looking to join virtual communities to "escape" the physical world, there are many users, like myself, who are interested in just expanding their social network through virtual communities such as Facebook. Many of us still strive to be ourselves in virtual communities, thus rules enforced in physical communication settings should be enforced in virtual communication settings. They say, "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me," however for some, names hurt MORE! Because of this, guidelines enforcing appropriate online language need be applied.
Property rules need to be enforced as well. Individual users may post pictures of themselves and loves ones and I just don't feel that every, and any, person should be aloud to save and keep these photographs. With property rules comes privacy, thus saving someone else's pictures to do god knows what with it will turn into an issue of privacy. However, I'm yet to come up with a way that this would be able to enforced as ANYONE can save almost ANYTHING to their computers (in terms of pictures) ...and even if they can't right click and save that picture, the "print screen" command is still available via their keyboard, so this problem needs to be addressed. Everyone in the community should feel comfortable enough to believe that the information, pictures, or videos they post will not be stolen and tainted.
In terms of relationships, like any castle needs a king, every community needs a leader. The leader would have to be agreed upon by all individual members that belong to the community and should be open minded when issues and concerns are brought to their attention and they should be willing to address these issues and concerns so that members feel comfortable. A manual would also need to be designed for the leader so that all rules are applied equally to all members. Kind of like the "rule of law" .....sorta....but for the virtual world.
After reading, "A Rape In Cyberspace," it is clear that banning members only works for the short term, as they can just come back with another identity. When dealing with members who do not abide by the "terms of use agreement" set out for the virtual community, I think they should have some sort of "flag" or "notice" displayed across their profile in a banner style so that members know they are "troublesome."
Well, these would be some of the rules for my virtual community that I have come up with thus far....if I come up with more, I'll let you know, k? and if you have any ideas of your own, tell your people to call my people, k?
signed,
g.i.a.c.w
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