netiquette

noun

1. (Internet, countable, uncountable)Conduct while online that is appropriate and courteous to other Internet users, and may be expected or enforced by others.

   “Top-posting and spamming are considered poor netiquette on a newsgroup.”

   “I would like to propose a netiquette rule, but I don't know where to post it.”

   “Manners count. On Usenet, the term is netiquette, and in the soap-opera group that Ms. Baym studied, it resembles professional courtesy.”

   “I have bad netiquette. Every week this column ends with information on how to write to me. And, every six to 12 weeks, I get around to checking my e-mail.”

2. (alt-of, countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of netiquette.

   “There have been several posts lately about the rights of people to post here, and there seems to be some confusion as to whether the traditions govern this Newsgroup. They do not. Netiquette applies here. […] Any member is welcome here as long as they behave appropriately within the guidelines of responsible Netiquette.”

   “In order to help us keep a clean and decorous house, we have in operation (a) the Netiquettes already in force while we were based at MIT; (b) the newly passed Rules.”

   “I have some GENERAL questions pertaining to what discussants in newsgroups sometimes do, and want to hear your opinion about them, with respect to (a) Netiquette, (b) ethics, and (c) legality. […] For brevity, you may rate each ACTION above using these codes: a1: acceptable within Netiquette a2: questionable in Netiquette a3: clearly unacceptable in Netiquette”

   “It is a dream to think that Internet will be one big anarchy. It never was and never will. It only means that some newsgroups are practcally dysfunctional because of the lack of Netiquette and because of abundance of abuse.”

   “Some Netiquettes are hypocritical and dishonest to the point of preferring the bloat (even in Plain Text) over anything kind, efficient and true (even in HTML or XLS or else); many others are the opposite.”