Really problems with social and community sites are nowadays increasing day-by-day and not much has been coming out to avoid such issues.

kishore: hmm…that may be true

jeet: I’m not sure that would have worked in Kathy Sierra’s case. Those threatening her were also using other forums to do it.

aishwarya, cuckoo, vidya: Thanks.

chimera: yes, falstaff is an example but i can think of a lot of others who are not – amit verma, jai arjun singh, samit basu…to name a few.

mad momma: thanks for dropping by. Yes, i found your blog via OJ too!

OJ: You go girl! Don’t let anyone scare you off.

You walk in streets and ppl think the same they will spk ugly things. Here it is easier ‘coz kind of anonymity you get… But this is all ‘coz of our society.

Girls are made to hide in their home.. Not allowed to go all alone.
We need to change our narrow thinkin…

I strongly believe we need a change. We are influenced from the western world but we dont follow them well…

Yes, I am with you on this thought.

Comment moderation is not going to help us (we will have our share of mental torture), so I have kept commenting open to all. Fortunately I have not recd much of abuse except once when I recd some threatening messages after I posted something abt a blog.

Can’t post the picture but I don’t have much of regret. Those who are/become my friends have other ways to have a look at them.

But I guess, that’s the price we have to pay to remain tension free.

Hey, some of us are just people who decry bigotry. I refuse to bother about gender, race, or creed as long as the other person does not start with that first.

I am left wing in some parts, liberal in others and conservative elsewhere. Here’s a question though:

Where does the right to dish out nasty speech end? What are the limits on freedom of speech? Yelling fire in a crowded theatre? Posting abuses? Using death threats? Note that two of these are criminal offenses, even in the US.

I *have* dealt with my share of being abused (personally, professionally, by caste, by creed, by dint of what I do online and offline). The easiest thing to do is report the abuse. There *are* formal channels to deal with such things (abuse@, domain contacts, whois contacts …).

Oh, and the other thing to do is never to stop doing what you are just because someone says you shouldn’t (as long as you aren’t abusing a third party’s resources. I don’t care what you say as long as you are paying for it. Use threats, and the cops will show up. Abuse me too much, and your abuse department will get a note. Spam me, and I am hell on bits.).

comment moderation can only prevent other people from seeing the comments but not our plight at receiving them so I do not think comments moderation would help unless we turn off comments completely.
and I do notice that men in indian blogsphere do not advertise their name or photographs either – what better example of this than Falstaff?