So, I've been away for a bit, and I see there are a couple of threads that are way too long to catch up on. But several people objecting to my reporting AO fan for "outing personal information", and a few supported me, mostly because it was old, very unflattering, and directly work-related.
Maybe I should have just reported AO Fan's post for being obnoxious, rather than for outing personal information. (Which is not to say there weren't plenty of other obnoxious posts in the thread, I am not personally interested in that aspect at the moment.) It would still probably have been deleted, and perhaps infracted.
(Aside: I have no idea why AO Fan thought any argument she made would reduce the time of the infraction point. She is generally the expert on these things, but as far as I know the ONLY person who can undo infraction points is Tom. So arguing with the mods about it is sort of a waste of time. And they do expire on their own.)
Anyhow, I feel like this is an issue that ought to be resolved. That is, when, if ever, is it not okay to publicly link old posts? Maybe that should always be okay. I still don't think it should be -- I think there should be some limits. And it's my belief, which might be wrong, that there WERE limits in the past, however haphazardly enforced. But it doesn't really matter what I think, or what might have happened in the past. What matters is what the rules are, and how the mods react to that sort of thing going forward.
This is a public request to Tom and/or the mods to come up with some sort of rule (which might be "anything goes") and post it.
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In the mean time, I've been contemplating some of the fights that led to this, and some of the fights that seem to be raging now. And I keep coming back to:
I've found a couple of candidate forums. (Fora?) In addition to being less hostile, they are also completely unrelated to the actuarial field, so there's less of a "everyone can figure out who you are, and it can come back to bite you in a job search" vibe. So I'm going to take a little vacation. Maybe I will find those fora unsatisfying, and come back to this one. Maybe I'll come back tomorrow. I dunno. But I'm going to test some other waters. This last part doesn't really belong in this post, but I don't really want to spend a lot more time here today.
'til next time,
Patty.
Maybe I should have just reported AO Fan's post for being obnoxious, rather than for outing personal information. (Which is not to say there weren't plenty of other obnoxious posts in the thread, I am not personally interested in that aspect at the moment.) It would still probably have been deleted, and perhaps infracted.
(Aside: I have no idea why AO Fan thought any argument she made would reduce the time of the infraction point. She is generally the expert on these things, but as far as I know the ONLY person who can undo infraction points is Tom. So arguing with the mods about it is sort of a waste of time. And they do expire on their own.)
Anyhow, I feel like this is an issue that ought to be resolved. That is, when, if ever, is it not okay to publicly link old posts? Maybe that should always be okay. I still don't think it should be -- I think there should be some limits. And it's my belief, which might be wrong, that there WERE limits in the past, however haphazardly enforced. But it doesn't really matter what I think, or what might have happened in the past. What matters is what the rules are, and how the mods react to that sort of thing going forward.
This is a public request to Tom and/or the mods to come up with some sort of rule (which might be "anything goes") and post it.
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In the mean time, I've been contemplating some of the fights that led to this, and some of the fights that seem to be raging now. And I keep coming back to:
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Originally Posted by PeppermintPatty (Post 7791651) ...maybe I should go find some forum that doesn't have so many especially obnoxious posts. |
I've found a couple of candidate forums. (Fora?) In addition to being less hostile, they are also completely unrelated to the actuarial field, so there's less of a "everyone can figure out who you are, and it can come back to bite you in a job search" vibe. So I'm going to take a little vacation. Maybe I will find those fora unsatisfying, and come back to this one. Maybe I'll come back tomorrow. I dunno. But I'm going to test some other waters. This last part doesn't really belong in this post, but I don't really want to spend a lot more time here today.
'til next time,
Patty.
dredging up personal infop from old posts
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