Wow, just wow

I can't decide if this is funny or disturbing, but another site I signed up to at the same time as this one actually has a board and a platoon of users dedicated to google image searching other members profile/gallery pictures to see if they are fake and deleting those members accounts.
Now for someone like me that most of the time uses a wolf picture as my profile image, I would be deleted from the site for doing so?
That's kind of a shitty thing to do in my book, what do you guys think?

 

Could be a double bluff. You might actually be a wolf, pretending to be a man...

 

You may even be right about that.

 

Don't Google my username at work. You'll find a ton of questionable shit.

 

Questionable shit from outer space?

 

That too. And Sultana's old avatar. Where the fuck did she go, anyway? I talked to her once while I was in college and then she disappeared.

...it's my fault.​

 

This is why you use different names for different uses..

 

Or don't get a Facebook.

 

you can have a facebook as long as you don't post or put anything on there that you would put on TFP.

 

I wouldn't have to worry about it.....this is my real face.

 

I don't understand this. Are you alluding to a rule of some kind? Did you mean to say: Don't post, etc. on Facebook anything previously posted on TFP? Is member participation here property of TFP? I don't want to violate any rules, but I have a Facebook account, and my interests here are also my interests there, and vice versa. What's the deal?

 

I believe that was specifically directed at Plan, ThomW You can "cross-post" all you'd like, with the exception, of course, of sharing things other members have posted.

Edit: and also, what Martian said (grrr, customers.)

 

Thanks. I would think that posting elsewhere what TFP members have posted here would be immediate reason for banning, no discussion about it.

One of the great aspects of the "Why are we here?" topic is the trust in confidentiality that feeling total acceptance by good people involves.

Make it family, keep it in the family.

End of issue.
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As the guy that would probably have that distasteful task fall to - because that's unfortunately my role, to at least lead that kind of discussion - I have to say "not necessarily". It really depends on what was said and in what context. There are people here that have disclosed potentially sensitive information - obviously we would want to protect that as much as possible. However, we don't police other sites, and a lot would be riding on exactly what happened.

And that's not to mention that we would have to take into account who the offender was as well.

While you may feel it would be simple, I promise you that it would be one of the tougher tasks that the staff could take on. And one that none of us would enjoy at all, even in a worst case scenario.

The issue may seem simple, but it's far more complex than you realize. We have multiple tools available to the staff to deal with various issues, which makes things even more complicated, since there are multiple potential outcomes.

As for the other board in the OP, that's someone with far too much time on their hands. I can't think of a reason to justify that kind of witch hunt.

 

It's totally your fault. Bastard.

 

Jazz, I should have thanked you—or at least "Liked" your response. So, thank you.

Relatedly, I want to thank whomever for maintaining a large archive of postings that are available to persons considering whether TFP would be the right place for them. You probably know that Googling a topic of interest—some sexual question, let's say—brings up postings from earlier TFP topics, which is a good thing, because the more that quality postings are available to people, the more that (1) TFP becomes a good resource for the general Internet community; and (2) the more that you draw in potentially-good members. (I read a lot of postings available to the general public before I decided to become a member.)

So, the more that folks are willing to be highly candid in publically-available postings—including (Thom's Words For The Day) smartly bawdy, progressively tendentious, or conscientiously pugnacious—the more that TFP stays important generally.

Excuse my tendency to get discursive, if that seems alienating. I love to write.

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Ah.. Sultana.. I remember her.. From the me I was when I was the me I used to be before I am the me I am now. Wrote a poem about how/why I admired her, back then.
I am completely convinced the OP IS in fact, a wolf, and should be allowed to use photos of his brothers/sisters as his visual representation on whatever forum he so chooses, and that the forum that he found that is doing that is not right in deleting accounts like that, but for other reasons they might have cause (misrepresenting ones self where it would infringe legally on something/someone)