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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Harshbarger writes:
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> >
> > In addition to pictures and names (and maybe email), you could
> > potentially allow the user to associate a link with their pic. At the
> > end of the link (on thier site) they could putwhatever contact/bio
> > information they wished... this could alleviate any concern about
> > culpability.
>
> I was thinking that with Adults I would be able to link to Home Pages if they
> have one along with having a short Bio. Other things that could be included
> would be favorite Themes/Projects etc.
>
> Again if there seems to be enough interest and people would not mind me • hosting
> the site I would make up some rules and post them.
>
> >
> > For example... I provide various bits of info about myself on my
> > homepage (below), and surely another LEGO website could not be held
> > accountable for linking to my site (especially with my
> > explicit/submitted) permission.
>
> Although I agree that one could not be held responsible for the content of
> anothers web site I still think there could be a problem with hosting pictures
> of minors and providing contact information for those minors even with their
> explicit/submitted permission.
>
> Again this may not seem fair but I for one would not feel comfortable
> diseminating any information about a minor that would ultimatly lead to • contact
> information of that minor. Therefore if I were to be the one hosting a site
> like this I would not feel comfortable hosting pictures of minors. That being
> said if someone were able to convince me that this would not be improper then • I
> would consider it.
Just to throw in my $0.02 (and I'm not disagreeing with much that has been
said so far):
Fairness to minors is not the issue. Don't let your bleeding heart ever get in
the way here.
It's not really up to the minor/s (so don't worry about alienating them) as to
whether or not this matters - it's up to their parents. Case in point, my wife
wanted to put pictures of her school-age piano students up on her site as a
way of publicly praising them (student of the month, etc.), but a parent told
us that we couldn't use any of her children's pictures for fear of some sicko
and we saw it to be a very reasonable and valid concern (I don't even have a
picture of me up anywhere).
So now it's names only for minors without any age references or illusion and
no bio/contact info for them: no school, city sports or any other info other
than "Suzy Smith has really started practising more, and it really shows! Go
Suzy!", even if parents say it's okay. That's the rules for us.
Should any minor wish to make him/herself known on the web, there are
certainly plenty of places and opportunity to do it(1), but I recommend
keeping such personal info away from your site as well as Lugnet. Linking to
"Little Billy's Spaceships" is one thing, but don't link to his bio. If
something happens it's not worth the risk even being implicated.
-Tom McD.
when replying, spamcake consumption rose 23% during the Women's World Cup.
(Source: AC Nielsen Overnight)
(1) I am totally for parents educating their kids about the web and it's good
and bad sides as early as their kids can get online by themselves.
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| (...) pictures (...) being (...) Tom, Thanks, these are basically exactly what my concerns are you just explain it much better. I currently host pictures of others models and their descriptions of their models but I have had to edit much of what I (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Harshbarger writes: snip (...) I was thinking that with Adults I would be able to link to Home Pages if they have one along with having a short Bio. Other things that could be included would be favorite Themes/Projects (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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