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Re: losing access (was Re: Enough already)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:15:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jasper Janssen writes:
> Edits are a lot worse than deletions, for a multitude of reasons. For
> one, editing means that there is something out there with all the
> appearance of coming from you, possibly up to legal force, which _you
> didn't write_.
The kind of edit I'm thinking about is another form of deletion - excising
a passage from a post, with a clear comment from the administrator
that it was editedl.
I see this as being better than a straight administrator deletion, because
it leaves the signpost up, so to speak, pointing to the censored text.
When a post disappears, you don't know why it's gone. There's no
accountability. But with an edit / expurgation with annotation, you
can clearly denote why the offending passage was removed.
An academic point and a moot one, since I don't expect to
see Todd jumping up to change the "we don't delete except on your
request" rule any time soon.
--
jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| Nephilim wrote in message ... (...) My first inclination would be to agree with the above, but I have heard this issue hashed out before in other venues, by people who show comparable understanding of all the issues as Todd. Two problems with edits (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: losing access (was Re: Enough already)
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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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