The idea of a Blog Ethics Community has been floated. And effectively rejected by everyone but those involved. The fact that those involved are “powerful” bloggers (whatever that mean) only deepends the irony of this, since those involved are typically humble about their power and that really they are “lucky to be where we are”.

Elisa Camahort covers my opinion well.

There’s no need. There’s no benefit. It only encourages elitism. And any regulation leads to more regulation, which leads to more elitism.

Blogging elitism is bad enough as it is, we don’t need to make it official.

The irony, of course, is that in saying this I’m sounding like an elitist telling them that they can’t do what they’re wanting to do. Personally I say go for it. If the idea floats, it’s because people want to do it (and hopefully not just because they get links from the All Powerful). It’s kind of like Marc Canter’s “paying bloggers to blog” thing.

If bloggers don’t want to do it, it’ll fail. If bloggers do want it and their readers leave, it’ll fail. If it fails, ah well we move on.

Also see Ellen’s post.