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losing access (was Re: Enough already)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:10:52 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Mike Stanley writes:
> John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:
> > TLC asked us not to do something. Maybe they think they have a legal brick • to
> > stand on-- whether they do or not is irrelevant. Instead of crying out that • our
> > civil liberties are being violated, let's just *willingly* abide. It's not
> > really that big a deal, IMHO.
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> You're right.
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> Let's just say that I don't want to be told my access privileges
> here are revoked if I happen to post a link to a picture that, for
> whatever reason, wasn't linked to on www.lego.com. That's just one
> minor thing I could see happening if the "we'd like it if you do
> things this way" requests of TLC become automatic word of law around
> here. Which I don't see happening, btw.
While I do completely support the right of the owner or
administrator of a site to control access to it ...
for what it's worth, I'd rather that LUGNET hosts take the
power upon themselves to delete posts, rather than to
ban people.
I seem to recall that there's a legal liability reason at the root
of the self-imposed rule that forbids Todd from deleting a post. But
seeing Todd briefly flirt with the idea of shutting down LUGNET
altogether rather than allow it to be used to stage leaks of LEGO
information made my blood run cold. If we had to pick one or the
other, I'd rather see a post get deleted than watch the server
be shut down.
And I'd also rather see a post deleted rather than a person banned.
If I made a colossol boo-boo, I'd rather have the post be whacked
than to have my account whacked.
Where can I to reread why administrator-based deletions or post
edits are a bad idea?
--
jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| (...) I think it was something along the lines of, if you take it upon yourself to delete posts, you also could be considered repsonsible if you _don't_ delete one that should have been. Which leads top lugnet shutting down, worst case, or even Todd (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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