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Moderator3 -> RE: philiphines ban (10/31/2014 10:31:15 AM)
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It is very tricky business to start selecting the people that 'may' be on your site and taking part, because it becomes a 'selection'. Do we really want that? That wasn't the purpose of the site and actually goes against what the goals were. In general, I look at it like, you come here because you want to, you agree to the Terms of Service or not and we respond if we have to. We would rather not, as we want people to have a good time. Say I post a guideline of some sort, any kind of guideline. You can be sure I am going to tick off a lot of people. I may make others very happy, but some won't be. What was it a former President said? lol
Now lets look at the world we live in for a moment. There is something out there that can pretty much do anything we want it to. We can disguise who we are, we can hide who and where we are, we can get into most anything someone has on the net. We can create hundreds of profiles and some do. Do you know how hard it is to keep up with that? Trust me, you don't want to know. We work hard at it all and many of us never intended to get a full time volunteer job. Even if we were paid, we couldn't prevent something from happening and the best we can do is temper it all. We stay on top of things as much as we can and then we move into another situation. How much do we want to control the lives of members? Honestly, I personally don't care to do that. We must at times determine if someone is really going to be a problem and do something about it on a one to one basis, but when we start deciding the intentions of people and then sort out who is a 'worthy' member, that opens a huge can of worms and I don't like cans of worms.
So we provide the means for the members to block other members, to report them and to help members if they have a problem, but we at some point, must accept that the members are adults and most can fend for themselves and wouldn't want us getting too close to their personal business. When they do want or need us there, we are there. We are not here to control people and there can be a fine line or a hundred in all of this.
So, please use the tools available to you and if things are difficult, do let us know, but understand that if anyone could control everything that mankind has managed to do, we would have world domination and that we can discuss in politics. I'm out of here at that point. lol
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