Sparrow69
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I've been thinking a bit about this for a while, and I don't know if anyone else here would agree, but I, personally, would feel safer if this site was made 'closed' so that not just anyone could view the information we all provide here. Set to completely private, so that only forum members can see anything that gets posted, and only on entering their username and password.
I can see your point about how the forum's privacy could restrict the chances of you meeting someone, but surely the most important thing is the safety of its members, as well as guests? How would you feel if a stink was caused if, say, a 10 year old somehow found this site? Far fetched maybe, but it's not impossible for such a thing to happen.
dont ban him ip jast this profile so he can freely explore this site and maybe post as annon i think this would be legal
I think that is a terrible suggestion. Some people that never registered to this site have contacted me after reading my contact thread and seeing my e-mail. These people would never have contacted me unless this forum would've been open.
I constantly am haunted by thoughts of all the dreadfulness that every second keeps happening in this awful world, but you can't start fiddling with the rights of people because of what might happen. This path is constantly taken, nowadays, and the more or less "democracies" of the world, that took so much to develop, now are sinking into a new age where what these countries have developed is starting to fall apart. Bad things may always happen... always. And compromising the rights of people only lead to yet more compromises - because people get used to the old compromises - and soon it's all gone. Due to this, I strongly oppose that suggestion. And don't forget: that ten-year-old could end up hurt in the same way through Google. It's up to the parents to do their best to protect their children, not up to everyone else at the cost of liberties. While I myself would wish I could keep all kinds of badness from happening, and so often feel like shit while thinking about how this world is, I myself, at least, still would not compromise liberties such as these as a means to protect them. The problem with just tolerating such measures is that the measures never end... just look at how Germany has become - not even schoolgirl uniforms used during sex is legal, anymore - what consenting adults may do at home is now illegal, there, if what they do may be connected to the adults acting to be "minors" - all this in the name of protecting minors. Measures like these usually never end and therefore I strongly oppose the suggestion.
Personal account info is not revealed. As a common practice, if your concernec about anonimity, you should never post anything personal on any website, ever, because at that point it becomes public domain. We do not require you to reveal personal data on your profile, however, since google owns vbulletin as a subsidiary, they are set to allow you to search certain topics on all vbulletin based forums (60%-65% of all forums in the world) as free domain.
I would suggest that if you are concerned, then you alter the name you use here, or use plausible denial, as your account here does not show any personal info.
Sort of suing Google, there is no way to change it. Also bare in mind, the more posts, the better the traffic, which google tracks, and it is that posting traffic that lists you on the ranks of most active, most popular, or most marketable, etc all of which only stand to improve the community we love here, and bring awareness and acceptance to the world.