Internet giant bans ‘trolling’ on internal message boards and ad hominem attacks against co-workers
Google said it would discipline any employees discriminating against or attacking colleagues or engaging in discussions that are “disruptive to a productive work environment,” according to a copy of the guidelines reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The rules aim to curb so-called trolling, in which people are deliberately provocative or offensive online in order to elicit strong reactions, as well as “blanket statements about groups or categories of people.”
How does HN handle trolls?
Here’s what the guidelines say:
“Please don’t complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don’t feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don’t also comment that you did.
Please don’t use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it.”