I have no concerns about the proposed revision.
I have no concerns about the proposed revision.
I think text and forum-hosted images should be held in perpetuity, i.e. an irrevocable license.
Google already does this, without even asking permission, and with no relationship to the posters.
Images hosted elsewhere and linked here can be removed from the host at the owner's discretion, and
in the case of Flickr at the host's discretion (why anybody uses that mess is beyond me).
Deleting relevant content at the request of the originator is simply fraud on his part.
- Leigh
If you believe you can, or you believe you can't... you're right.
I disagree with this. You don't gain anything by knowing who I am (though in my case you can trivially figure it out from the links in my signature; my pseudonym is just a bit of fun leftover from when I was an undergraduate) but there are no shortage of people who legitimately obtain significant value from acting pseudonymously online, e.g. because their real name is noteworthy. And that value they obtain is not to your detriment.
Read this and this and note carefully that pseudonymity is NOT the same as anonymity. Say that LFPF decides on "Real Names Only" - who the hell is going to verify that? You gonna come over here and look at my driver's license? Rick "ain't nobody got time for that shit" Denney will probably be looking for volunteers.
If you need strong identity to participate in a monetary transaction, it's up to you to authenticate the other party to your satisfaction, not the forum.
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on flickr
Analogue Photo and Film FAQ (for APUG)
Open Source F/Stop Timer
I'm all for irrevocatibility. I think it makes for a better forum if people know they will have to stand by what they say.
But in reasonable cases it should be possible to remove a posting or image. There are clear cut cases where deletion is the right thing to do, even given the impossibility of completely scrubbing the internet (I'm thinking of things like Eugene Smith's Tomoko Uemura photograph). Personally, I think we can trust the moderators to be human, but if airtight rules are being written, some kind of let out or appeal mechanism would be good.
Problems can arise when using real names. Both the famous author and the infamous cult leader who shared my name are gone, but others abound on other forums.
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