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In lugnet.admin.general, Tom McDonald writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Harshbarger writes:
> > snip
> > >
> > > 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,
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 put up to take out
anything that is descriptive.
That being said, if this is something that ends up happening and if I end up
hosting the site it will be for Adults only (aka 18 years old and up).
Tom thanks again for the great description of what I was having trouble getting
across.
Eric,
Jawaspam is best well done.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/4598
>
> -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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