Like the aim; not so sure about the proposed solution 

Tim O'Reilly responds to reaction to his initial code of conduct post.

I'm completely on board with the endgame: make an attempt to evolve the online culture from an expectation that nasty, disrespectful or demeaning commentary is just a part of the web so expect to see it anywhere and deal with it. I'm just not sure the badge concept addresses it that well.

If there's a need for a systematized leadership initiative, I guess I'd rather see a different kind of posse. Get really grassroots. Start going door to door and talk to people, don't just put a sign on your lawn. Ask thought leaders to volunteer to do strategic commenting where they see remarks that bother them. For pointers, see the Caveat Lector post I linked to a couple weeks ago about what guys can do to show they're not amused or impressed when little boys (young and old) start spewing stuff like "I'd like to do her" or "I'll bet she's a fat whore."

I think some people are coming around to this. Mike Arrington didn't like that one of his writers was driven off the job partly by rude comments about her appearance. Recently, he's said he might consider having a comment policy. But what would do even more good, on his sites, and across the net, would be to address those types of commenters personally. Real low key, just make it a point once in a while, not even every time, to say, "Charlie, I didn't think that was funny." Because I do think that, at least on the womanbashing front, maybe even on the meankids site, these guys are showing off for other guys as much as anything else.

It would take some guts to do it in the beginning. Probably the first people to start picking up their dogs' poop felt like nancy boys. These days it's just considered the decent thing to do.

Women can object to comments we don't like, too. We may have better results working on other kinds of disrespect.

Saying nothing says something 

Gentleman's Agreement won the Oscar for best picture in 1947. It makes you squirm if you've ever sat by while others joked about something you didn't think was funny, but didn't have the guts to say anything.

.ES domains available, Dotster tells me in email 

No, I haven't changed registrars. Yet. Dotster reduced the size of the dotgirls ad on its home page.

.es has all kinds of del.icio.us type word possibilities. If you're into buying clever names. Which I'm not. Much.