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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (28109)	2/3/2005 3:05:53 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

The rule around here USED TO BE that once you put information on this site, it was THERE and usable by other members from then on. With the advent of advanced search, there seems to have been a sudden unannounced change in this policy- -which I unknowingly, assuming the old rule still applied, stepped in. It seems now that old information is easily available through advanced search, you can find yourself in the position of violating someone else's "privacy", potentially without you even knowing it. And without that information having been private at the time it was posted. And find yourself subject to threats of termination by Admin. Another way of looking at that is that paying for Advanced Search is fine as long as you don't use information it finds in a post. It seems to me that the only reasonable and workable rule is the original one: You post it, it's out there. You don't want it out there, don't post it. It's clear, it's simple, SI Admin knows when privacy violations have taken place and when they have not and so do the rest of us. There is no need for arbitrary and capricious interpretations. Is the fact that X is a lawyer, even though a nonpracticing one, a factor in this? SI does have a history of giving in to legal blackmail. X herself protested this in one case. Do we all need to get J.D.s to have equal rights? (Did I just lay myself open again? Is the fact that she has a J.D., even though well known on SI, a privacy violation? Can she get me terminated, then two posts later refer to herself as an attorney with impunity?) Yeah, I know we all have posts out there that we would just as soon not again see the light of day. I know I do. OTOH, there is the adult approach to the problem: apologize, admit you were wrong, and say you no longer view things that way. X could have done that in this case. I suppose Admin could kill Advanced Search and give us all our money back. That still doesn't really solve the problem, though.