02-13-2010, 09:19 AM
This is a good point.
As I stated earlier personally identifiable information (aka PII) is a big thing because its misuse / abuse / distribution without permission or in conjunction with law enforcement issues etc could result in an extremely nasty situation for a forum owner. Certain folks seemed to be of the impression that I was whining with my posts about it earlier (when I believed I was being acused of misusing PII as an administrator) but I wanted to hammer the point home that I was not nor would I ever misuse the PII of any member of my forum. I was willing to type and re-type that shit ad nauseum because it is IMPORTANT.
As far as controlling PII within the forum I think that it may be difficult. You can remove inappropriate posts & ban as punishment but consider this scenario:
Let's say someone does some googling or yahoo searching and somehow finds another member's home address. They then go to one of those real estate websites, snag a pic of the house... then they post it in the forum so we can all laugh @ what a dump the person lives in. I am thinking that Duchess would remove the pic & ban the person. But let's say the member doesn't post the pic in the open forum because they know they will be banned, what they do is use the PM system to distribute the home address as well as the pic to other members. What happens then? How does admin & the member know that their home address is being shared in the forum?
A member here posted a pic of herself and her spouse. Their faces are visible. Others posted pics of their pets or their breasts. There is nothing stopping any other member from using those pictures all over the Internet now.
This is hard - especially @ a site like this because people do experience real anger here over some of the shit people say...enough anger to talk off forum about what happens here and enough anger to do research on other members in search of material to mock or discredit etc.
No matter what is decided here, we all need to understand that what you share in the discussion portions of forums is public. Do not share anything which is "secret" or anything which you would not want to be made public.
As I stated earlier personally identifiable information (aka PII) is a big thing because its misuse / abuse / distribution without permission or in conjunction with law enforcement issues etc could result in an extremely nasty situation for a forum owner. Certain folks seemed to be of the impression that I was whining with my posts about it earlier (when I believed I was being acused of misusing PII as an administrator) but I wanted to hammer the point home that I was not nor would I ever misuse the PII of any member of my forum. I was willing to type and re-type that shit ad nauseum because it is IMPORTANT.
As far as controlling PII within the forum I think that it may be difficult. You can remove inappropriate posts & ban as punishment but consider this scenario:
Let's say someone does some googling or yahoo searching and somehow finds another member's home address. They then go to one of those real estate websites, snag a pic of the house... then they post it in the forum so we can all laugh @ what a dump the person lives in. I am thinking that Duchess would remove the pic & ban the person. But let's say the member doesn't post the pic in the open forum because they know they will be banned, what they do is use the PM system to distribute the home address as well as the pic to other members. What happens then? How does admin & the member know that their home address is being shared in the forum?
A member here posted a pic of herself and her spouse. Their faces are visible. Others posted pics of their pets or their breasts. There is nothing stopping any other member from using those pictures all over the Internet now.
This is hard - especially @ a site like this because people do experience real anger here over some of the shit people say...enough anger to talk off forum about what happens here and enough anger to do research on other members in search of material to mock or discredit etc.
No matter what is decided here, we all need to understand that what you share in the discussion portions of forums is public. Do not share anything which is "secret" or anything which you would not want to be made public.
I will not be participating at this forum.
This is a toxic place. Goodbye.
This is a toxic place. Goodbye.