Nice Guy links and the Three Comment Rule

So, what with one thing and another (mostly a friend linking to this the other day), I've been near-obsessively digging around and collecting Nice Guy links. And somewhere along the line, I stumbled across this lovely netiquette suggestion.

The idea, for those who don't care to click the link, is to give any one person three whole comments in which to completely screw up beyond belief. It's like a three-strike policy, and, IMHO, looks like it could potentially be very useful in sorting the trolls from the poor writers/speakers/whatever you call it when it's a discussion on the internet.

For those interested, I've collected about ten Nice Guy links thus far (count includes two comics demonstrating the Nice Guy phenomenon, but does not include things like the f_w post I was linked to, the Craigslist failure ad, or the Geek Social Fallacies, nor does it account for individual comments I have linked from parent posts), but am still looking for any others I can find. It's like a train wreck, except on the internet and not actually in live-action. At this rate, I'll probably have to give Nice Guy Links their own section in my bookmarks.


On a completely different note, I'm hoping to start mailing out some snowflakes sometime today :3b I'll probably be willing to keep making and mailing through mid-January, if anyone is still interested who has not yet signed up ♥

The main problem here is probably the "passive" part

I kinda wanna make a long ranty post re: my thoughts on passive-aggressiveness and why I think it is a really stupid behavior, but that would be about 100% hypocritical.

Unless sitting and reading elsewhere instead would be passive-aggressive.

Hmmm. Conundrum.

*goes to take her meds*

Edit: Hack that, I'm so writing that rant. Writing is way more active than sitting and reading, and it does something about it, even if I don't confront all the people who annoy me with it directly. Probably won't be written today - I've got pet food to mix - but written it will be.