What is meant by net etiquette?

Answer 1

Netiquette is internet etiquette. It is just good manners online and is not governed by any official body. Some of these guidelines include:

1: Remember the Human - Do unto others as you'd have them to do unto you. Stand up for yourself if you must, but do try to avoid hurting others' feelings. You have to be more careful of what you say since many of the normal communication cues are missing.

2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life - Don't think that because you are online, you can get by with whatever you want. Don't forget that there is a real person on the other end. Committing actual crimes online is in itself bad netiquette.

3: Know where you are in cyberspace - What is appropriate in one place will likely be inappropriate in others. For instance, you can discuss human sexuality in a forum intended for it, but you would not be tolerated doing it in a forum for children to discuss television shows. If you are unfamiliar with a forum, then observe others and ask questions.

4: Respect other people's time and bandwidth - If you post the same things over and over to the same newsgroup or forum, you are taking up server space and possibly making pages take longer to load. Also remember that if you post questions on a forum or Q&A site, you should not expect an instant response. Others have more to do than just sit around and wait for you to post. You should also make sure that you don't forward emails to more people than who are interested. There are real people on the other end, they only get so much space, and someone has to clean out the mailbox.

5: Make yourself look good online - Appreciate being anonymous. Nobody has to know anything about you that would subject you to bigotry unless you mention it. You should work on your spelling and grammar. You should know what you are talking about and try to avoid giving incorrect or false information. If you use qualifying words such as "I believe this is the case but...," then you might want to ask yourself if you want to share that you might be ignorant on the topic. Instead, you may want to look up the supposed facts to be sure before posting them. Also keep what you say simple and make sure it makes sense. Additionally, avoid using language that could provoke a flame war, and try not to swear unless it is necessary. If you must use profanity, then at least block out some of the letters or use substitute words.

6: Share expert knowledge - One good custom is when you ask something in public forums that could generate many replies, you could ask them to sent it to a private message or to email. Then once you get the replies, you can then condense them into a single post and then post all that back on the public forum. So everyone benefits from the advice you received.

If you actually are an expert on a forum topic, then you could write an FAQ if one doesn't already exist, share links on the topic, share a bibliography, etc. If you are using copyrighted materials, then be sure to respect the copyrights.

7: Help keep flame wars under control - Flaming is a long-held online tradition and not always a bad thing, but flame wars can get out of control. The flame wars can dominate the discussions, become boring, and eat up bandwidth. It is unfair to the ones who are not involved in the flame war. On parts of the Internet, there are protracted flame wars and feuds that last for years.

8: Respect other people's privacy - If you don't snoop through a coworker's drawers, then don't snoop through their email either. Either one can cost you your job.

It is possible to set up a sting to where a person finds some juicy information that nobody else actually knows about except the person who is trying to catch the snoop. So if this private information becomes gossip, then everyone will point back to their source.

9: Don't abuse your power - Just because you may have privileges that others on a network don't have, it doesn't mean you should take advantage of them in a way that gives you unfair advantage or invades into the privacy or other rights of others. System administrators, for instance, should never read their users' private mail.

10: Be forgiving of other people's mistakes - Everyone starts as a newbie. If you must correct others, do so politely, and preferably in private. If you try to correct someone's spelling, grammar, or netiquette, please try to avoid similar mistakes as you do so. Those who passionately correct spelling often misspell words in their correction, so those who passionately warn about poor netiquette are likely to be rude about it. All that should be avoided.

A few other tips:
Don't type entire exchanges in ALL CAPS, since that means the same thing as shouting. It also comes across as being lazy.

Don't cause chat screens to scroll faster than others can read them. One typical violation of this is flooding, where someone fills a chat console with nonsense to interfere with the conversation.

Answer 2

To abide by Internet etiquette guidelines.

Answer 3

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