The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124896   Message #2762151
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
08-Nov-09 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: 'Share this thread'?
Subject: RE: 'Share this thread'?
"I thought anonymous guest posts were supposed to be deleted" It's not an automated process, someone with the magic power has to see them and junk them. And no doubt they will before long.

Obviously everything here is in principle already wide open, and has been since Google starting indexing us. But there's a difference between people being able to find their way here as individuals and an open invitation to join in a fight sent out to people who are looking for a fight.

"If you don't like the share this thread don't use it" misses the point. There's nothing any of us can do to stop all our threads being paraded on the nastiest sites and to the nastiest people on the net, at a touch of a button. And, as the recent going on with people being harassed on FaceBook should remind us, there are some pretty nasty people around. I don't like it being made too easy for them.

I just hope there are second thoughts about this, so far as the BS threads are concerned. Crossing my fingers.