Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics

Moof · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: A Blog's Age

I was wondering if there were any plans to consider a blog's age before allowing them to post the Code. I was thinking that it may be difficult to get a comprehensive profile from a very young blog, since it could be hard to assess its basic undercurrent or thrust due to a limited amount of material.

Note that I'm not against accepting young blogs, but this concern did cross my mind, and I thought that I should mention it at the outset.

What do the rest of you think?
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Rob · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:03 am Post subject:

I agree. We need to at least look at the quality of the work and have enough to tell. I did have a fairly new blogger with VERY good content that I approved.
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palmd · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:27 am Post subject:

Im not sure what "new" is in the blogosphere (i think im very new) but the point is well taken. Of course, any old blog can take a weird turn at any time.

Rob · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:41 am Post subject:

We thought that 3 mos was reasonable, but I would say that if someone has very good content, then they could be approved earlier. A good example of this is the Executive Physician Blog - I approved it and it was under 2 mos old.
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Roy · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:02 am Post subject:

Moof · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:33 am Post subject:

I agree with Roy, although that wasn't my initial reasoning. An abandoned blog full of comment spam for sex toys and foreign pharmacies may not be the best place for the code to be displayed.

You know, you could have the code be remotely linked, and simply take it away from the blogs that become non-compliant, or are abandoned and begin to farm comment spam ...

At first, I was going to say that we could all agree ahead of time to remove the code if we're going to abandon our blogs, but years from now, if someone gets sick or otherwise unable to maintain it anymore, they may not be thinking about the code in their sidebar.

Rather than pasted in images, perhaps you could do it with a remotely linked image which has an allow/disallow php script as a source. That would give you a measure of control over where it's displayed, and would even give you control over which image is displayed.
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Rob · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

Fine with me. I did well to do the HTML for the script. I figured if we got an abusing party, we could just alert all code holders and change the location of the picture. If the person starts flagrantly going against the code, we could change the image to a llama that says "This site breaks the code of Ethics" or something like that.
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rlbates · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject:

Rob, I like the llama thing if the blog takes a wrong turn or abandons the ethics concept. Should there be a warning and a chance to correct the issue?

Roy · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: Llama

Great ideas. The remote linking is doable, and Moof's idea about making it so that each blog's image can be turned on and off, including Rob's Llama insertion, is terrific. "Beware the Llama!" LOL.

Moof, if you know of a place to start with right PHP script, let me know. Alternatively, we could just create a separately-named image for each blog, and keep them all in a folder on the medbloggercode.com site. This would also permit stats on the number of hits each blog gets (if we want that sorta thing).
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Rob · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject:

Just let me know what to do and I will do it. I have easy access to the files and have actually changed pictures on people in the past. It is fun to see how quickly they catch on.
I'll wait on Moof as far as the PHP script. I am fine with putting it in separate folders if that is what is easier. I could do that now, although the script sounds more elegant.
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KimRN · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject:

joetraff · Joined: 04 May 2010 Posts: 2

Well. I agree with you guys.
The fact the to keep a blog updated for a few months the blogger must
take a pretty high effort. And it's not that easy.
So you guys should be little lenient about the time-line of blogs duration and emphasize more on the quality of the blog. Smile

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DonaldNuv · Joined: 12 May 2010 Posts: 2

or maybe you could make it so the llama wasn't so FEARED! not condemning by putting a black mark on peoples blogs by having the text that the site doesn't abide by the rules. but a more neutral graphic directing bloggers to a thread where they can learn what they need to fix to get the correct graphic back up.
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Philip30 · Joined: 26 Jul 2010 Posts: 1

i agree of that..
im happy cause i visit your site..
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