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Manners
(May 1, 2003) --
Manners are the common courtesies we extend to each other in order to live
together. Effective manners require a clear understanding of the environment.
The same manners that work well in Boston are somewhat effective in Atlanta.
They often fail in California. Like many things, manners are context sensitive.
All of us have adapted, more or less to the rules
of email etiquette. We've reprinted a fairly standard list at the end of the
article.
Interestingly, there is little in the way of a
similar set of norms for websites and none whatsoever for employment websites.
Part of the mission at Candidate Voice
is to articulate the things that are good and bad manners in employment
websites.
- Be careful what you write about others. Assume
that anyone about whom you are writing will read your comments or receive
them by some circuitous route.
- Be truthful. Do not pretend to be someone or
something that you are not.
- Be brief. Receiving and reading messages costs
time and money.
- Use titles that accurately and concisely
describe the contents of e-mail and other postings.
- Consider your audience, and use language that
is appropriate. Excessive use of jargon in a nontechnical chat room, for
example, can be bad manners, and remember that children sometimes dial into
chat rooms.
- Avoid offensive language, especially comments
that might be construed as racist or sexist.
- Remember that the law still applies in
cyberspace. Do not commit illegal acts online, such as libeling or
slandering others, and do not joke about committing illegal acts.
- Be careful with humor and sarcasm. One
person's humorous comment can be another person's boorish or degrading
remark.
- Do not post a message more than once.
- Generally speaking, avoid putting words into
full capitals. Online, all-caps is considered SHOUTING.
- If you are following up a previous message or
posting, summarize that message or posting.
- When summarizing, summarize.
- Do not post irrelevant messages, referred to
in hacker's jargon as spam.
- Do not post messages whose sole purpose is to
sucker others into an irrelevant or unimportant discussion. Such messages
are known as trolls.
- Read existing follow-up postings and don't
repeat what has already been said.
- Respect other people's intellectual
property. Don't post, display, or otherwise provide access to materials
belonging to others, and cite references as appropriate.
- Temper online expressions of hostility; in
hacker's jargon, avoid excessive flaming of others.
- Never send online chain letters.
- Some e-mail programs allow one to place
signatures containing text and graphics at the ends of mailings. Remember
that elaborate materials take up valuable transmission time, and do not
overdo these signatures.
- Limit the length of typed lines to less than
78 characters, and avoid unusual formatting.
- Identify any financial interests related to an
e-mail message or posting. If you are selling something, make that fact
clear.
- Do not send e-mail to people who might have no
interest in it. In particular, avoid automatically copying e-mail to large
numbers of people.
- Online messages can be quite informal, but
try, nevertheless, to express yourself using proper spelling,
capitalization, grammar, usage, and punctuation.
- Avoid chastising others for their online
typos. To err is human. To forgive is good cybercitizenship.
John
Sumser
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