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View Poll Results: should the meets section be restricted to members only? | |||
yes | 41 | 68.33% | |
no | 19 | 31.67% | |
Voters: 60. You may not vote on this poll |
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I really don't understand - access wouldn't be restricted to anyone who is a member. Surely almost all (if not all) regular meet attenders are already members of the site. So who's losing out exactly? And who are those who 'never attend but want access restricted out of paranoia'? How do you know that group of people even exists? And if you feel safe with everyone knowing about a meet, is that the only valid opinion there is? Let the majority decide is my view. |
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That's my case anyway, people can make up their own minds and vote on the poll. |
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Yes I agree that the majority should decide -the majority of meet attendees, not Onanistic observers. What I actually wrote above was 'never attend but want access restricted out of paranoia or whatever'. Please do not misquote me. Paranoia is just one faulty reason why someone would want to see the meet details restricted but as can be seen above, it is the main objection ('I don't want it googleable' etc). |
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As it happens, I don't particularly want it Googleable. Does that make me paranoid? If it does in your opinion, then so be it. Don't expect me to accept your value judgements as facts though. |
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I'd be miffed in someone posted a meet photos in the meet section with me in the photos. Once that informations out there it's in the public domain and can't be taken back. I had problems in my last job where a certain individual was into the habit of googling my name and email address and joining various forums that I was a member of and trying to troll me! Luckily he didn't know my main email because I was shocked when I googled it and the top result came back SAUK! It took me 4 months to get google to remove it. If that had come out I would have suffered a shitstorm at work guaranteed. But as for making the meets members only, I really can't see how it can do much harm to leave it unrestricted. Is someone going to go to the trouble of tracking someone down at a specific location to hassle them? We're anonymous anyway, so who do they even know who to look for? If the meets do become members only it won't affect me personally either way, I'm just against it on principle. |
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Why is this such a big deal?
I couldn't give a toss whether it's restricted or not (and yes, I go to meets). Yes, restricting the meets section won't really prevent any "weirdos" from attending... *cough*... but if it makes some members here feel a bit more at ease when attending a meet (which, I'm guessing from the results of the poll thus far, would do), then is it really such an issue to go through with restricting it? |
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^ pretty much sums it up.
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Depends how you look at it, if people are worried about even the slightest possibility of being tracked down in person at meets because of the views or opinions they've expressed on here or because they're worried about people finding out about their SA and this is putting them off attending meets then it should be made members only.
Is this happening here? Has this view been brought up before on SAUK whereby a member has complained about the possibility of being tracked down? |
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I don't think it should be restricted. If someone was adamant enough to want to attend, they will find some way of doing so regardless, they would have heard that SAUK do meets from somewhere or someone and register with SAUK to find out the details. The only way to curtail this would be to not only create the forum as private but also have an alloted post count, say 100, before they could enter that forum (or thread). That would be a way around it, but then again, who's to say that any new member couldn't PM someone else and ask for the details?
As I never attend these meets, I don't know how it all works, but I am sure if someone wanted to attend they would find some way to. |
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