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netiquette

noun
/ˈnɛt.ɪˌkɛt/

Etymology

Blend of Net + etiquette.

  1. derived from *(s)teyg-✻ — “to be sharp, to stab”
  2. derived from *stikaną✻
  3. derived from *stekan✻
  4. derived from estiquette — “ticket, memorandum”
  5. borrowed from étiquette — “property, a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket”
  6. compounded as netiquette — “Net + etiquette”

Definitions

  1. Conduct while online that is appropriate and courteous to other Internet users, and may…

    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.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for netiquette. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA