Betsy
05-19-05, 11:44 AM
Every once in a while I get an email or PM from someone requesting some or even all of their posts be removed. Occassionally, these notes are even from people who haven't posted or visited in a year!
Our editing policy is as follows:
You can edit your posts within 60 minutes of posting them. That is, in a flight of fancy you post about your wildest sexual fantasy and then think the better of it, you can remove all the text in that post with the exception of one character (any will do just fine)--as long as it takes place within 60 minutes of hitting save.
If for some reason you find you posted something so intimately personally revealing the night before and wake up the next morning regretting it, send a note and if it is not germane to the thread (that is---people haven't reacted to it) and thus would not disrupt continuity if it were edited out or even deleted, myself or Peter can do some minor editing on it. The key there is minor editing which would make that action transparent.
Examples that would warrant this is if you posted your phone number, something that is horribly insulting to someone when you didn't mean it and something that is simply wrong--for instance, you said that masturbation causes pregnancy and meant it! In all honesty, if you posted your home phone number, it is likely Peter or myself spotted and already made the change. I almost always leave a note when that is done (yes...it does happen). Another example of this happening was one of our posters had posted some very revealing information that practically included directions to her house and she later asked me to edit it and I did in such a way to make the personally identifiable information go away without actually changing the meaning of the post and integrity of the thread.
It is strictly up to myself or Peter to act on it, if we feel it necessary.
However, this policy doesn't include removing all your posts and it doesn't include removing a thread under any but the absolute most extenuating circumstances. Please don't ask--it won't happen.
Doing so would cause this community to not have any sort of sense and integrity within continuity and thus, the forum would cease to be useful due to the confusing nature of missing posts and threads that may be referred to elsewhere.
Sometimes, the information in threads can be extremely helpful for future visitors and if in my judgement, there is nothing intimately and personally revealing it will not be changed which was the case in the request received today. This is particularly true of posts and threads from a few months ago.
Please keep in mind that when you post, it is there for all to see and read. It's not unlike writing a published article or book--once published, it is available for anyone to read now and in the future. If you are about to reveal extremely private information, think twice before hitting send---just like you would with email.
Thanks for your understanding.
Betsy
Our editing policy is as follows:
You can edit your posts within 60 minutes of posting them. That is, in a flight of fancy you post about your wildest sexual fantasy and then think the better of it, you can remove all the text in that post with the exception of one character (any will do just fine)--as long as it takes place within 60 minutes of hitting save.
If for some reason you find you posted something so intimately personally revealing the night before and wake up the next morning regretting it, send a note and if it is not germane to the thread (that is---people haven't reacted to it) and thus would not disrupt continuity if it were edited out or even deleted, myself or Peter can do some minor editing on it. The key there is minor editing which would make that action transparent.
Examples that would warrant this is if you posted your phone number, something that is horribly insulting to someone when you didn't mean it and something that is simply wrong--for instance, you said that masturbation causes pregnancy and meant it! In all honesty, if you posted your home phone number, it is likely Peter or myself spotted and already made the change. I almost always leave a note when that is done (yes...it does happen). Another example of this happening was one of our posters had posted some very revealing information that practically included directions to her house and she later asked me to edit it and I did in such a way to make the personally identifiable information go away without actually changing the meaning of the post and integrity of the thread.
It is strictly up to myself or Peter to act on it, if we feel it necessary.
However, this policy doesn't include removing all your posts and it doesn't include removing a thread under any but the absolute most extenuating circumstances. Please don't ask--it won't happen.
Doing so would cause this community to not have any sort of sense and integrity within continuity and thus, the forum would cease to be useful due to the confusing nature of missing posts and threads that may be referred to elsewhere.
Sometimes, the information in threads can be extremely helpful for future visitors and if in my judgement, there is nothing intimately and personally revealing it will not be changed which was the case in the request received today. This is particularly true of posts and threads from a few months ago.
Please keep in mind that when you post, it is there for all to see and read. It's not unlike writing a published article or book--once published, it is available for anyone to read now and in the future. If you are about to reveal extremely private information, think twice before hitting send---just like you would with email.
Thanks for your understanding.
Betsy