WHY ISNT THIS PRIVATE
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'Is there something that you don't want to be seen?' -- That right there is part of the problem. They use that argument all the time when stripping away privacy. 'WhAt aRe YoUu HiDiNgG?' -- its nothing about wanting or not wanting our private words with eachother seen its just better to aire perhaps on the side of caution.
Members of this community that interact on here shouldnt have google crawling or non members scavenging our discussions. Yes if this was a forum on correct parts for a fucking dishwasher installation then sure make it public, I just feel its unwise and unfair to put our discussions out in public when its literally probably the flick of a click to change that. And if non members cant read it, then tough shit who cares.
I just fail to see the logic of having it publicly posted online for everywhere in the world when this is a niche and private community.
Just my opinion.
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@cp2000 'err' not 'aire' ... another dipshit rule not letting us edit and control our posts most.
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@cp2000 if you are bored there have been a few austin wolf torrents posted recently, u can go check the comments
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@ianfontinell-0 lmao ... dick.. but thanks yea do want.
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@cp2000 said in WHY ISNT THIS PRIVATE:
@cp2000 'err' not 'aire' ... another dipshit rule not letting us edit and control our posts most.
You can edit your posts (or at least I can), and you can see edit history. Both of these are great features.
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@justatest90-0 said in WHY ISNT THIS PRIVATE:
@cp2000 said in WHY ISNT THIS PRIVATE:
@cp2000 'err' not 'aire' ... another dipshit rule not letting us edit and control our posts most.
You can edit your posts (or at least I can), and you can see edit history. Both of these are great features.
Mea culpa: I can edit my comments elsewhere (and see edit history) but can neither edit nor delete comments here. That is a bit awkward.
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@justatest90-0 LOL exacccctly
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@MrMazda The thing that most concerns me about this is that since the same usernames are used for both the tracker and the forum, this in effect reveals a possibly meaningful item of information most users shouldn't want made public, especially if they've signed up for several trackers under the same nick.
Given what's apparently just happened to Gay-Area.org, a little more caution might not be amiss.
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@rentboy trust me in this crazyass world that is just one of many concerns people should have about this forum being open to the public to crawl. its just unnesscessary and we should have the comfort of a private community conversation together. There should be many privacy concerns for anyone participating.
If people on the outside cant read it, then who gives a fuck, they can join if they really want to participate.
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@rentboy If you are concerned about what may be tied back to you due to copyright trolls, then the only thing I would suggest is to not post anything that would tie you to having uploaded or downloaded a torrent.
Keep in mind that making a comment thanking a user for having uploaded a torrent is not evidence that you have downloaded said torrent. Also, on comments you make on your own torrents, to anyone other than staff, your username does not appear, but rather you show up as "Uploader".
If another site gets compromised, any information from that site is likely already in their hands, so nothing from this site could be used to do any damage beyond what has already been done from the other site.
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@MrMazda this right here is exactly what I'm talking about this is enough to make me quit this entire site.... Privacy should be a right that should be automatic and not something you should have to worry about. What an awful answer. You basically gave the same exact answer as Steve Schmidt from Google gave.. "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," Schmidt said in a 2009 CNBC.... All of you that don't respect privacy on this site that have created a site to share P2P and for some reason don't understand and respect privacy in it's most extreme necessary terms as a site like this then fuck you seriously fuck you
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@cp2000 i have already reported that with the new site, no uploaded is anonymous, even using the strongest privacy setting, because the current framework used to allow uploaders to be contacted exposes their nickname.
We are going from "you are not allowed to place any identifiable information in torrent details" to "anyone can see who you are and contact you" and it's really annoying.
I'm not as worried about the forum being public, I really don't see how it could pose any danger granted that I am 100% anonymous in the main site, but that's not the case anymore, I really hate that.
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As far as the forum is concerned, should the question not be simply "What is the benefit of this forum being public?"
To my mind that it may be common practice elsewhere is not a good reason. I was extremely pleased when I finally got forum access recently. However, until this thread I was unaware that the forum isn't protected by "Member Only" access. Now that I am aware, and need to self-censor what I say in case I inadvertently say something that exposes me to risk, I'll need to rethink my participation.
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@cp2000 There's only one problem... In the digital age, privacy is a myth. Literally anything on the internet (whether it's public or not) can be subjected to a subpoena by the courts. So regardless of whether or not it's private makes ZERO difference to the ability of the legal system to obtain it through a subpoena process.
I'll bet you didn't even know that the same applies to things like medical records, which are supposed to be held with the strictest of confidentiality.
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@MrMazda Does the granting of a subpoena not require 'probable cause'? Allowing public access to the forum will likely be the basis of a 'probable cause' subpoena for the main site's records. Even if making the forum 'Members Only' only makes something like that only marginally less likely, that's still lowering the risk.
And that argument does nothing to address the question of what benefits are there to it being public. If there are none, it should surely be private.
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@Kevin4fm You would think, but in one particular case that I'm intimately familiar with, all that it took for someone (me) to get arrested, sent straight to jail, denied bail, and have things like medical records subject to a subpoena was literally nothing more than a verbal allegation alone with absolutely ZERO physical evidence.
What's worse about that particular case is that I absolutely did NOT do what I was accused of, but despite the overwhelming evidence to support my innocence, the verbal allegation alone was all that was needed to sink me. Now, many years later, I have finally been granted a pardon, as the Parole Board of Canada finally acknowledged that both in relation to the charges against me, as well as everything that has been submitted to them since, there was (and I quote) "insufficient evidence of criminal activity".
So just because it should, in theory, require some sort of substance to the claim being made, this is not always the case.
As for the benefits of the forum being visible to public search engines, the biggest benefit that I can think of is it makes content such as help and how to's that are in the forum more easily searchable, even if our internal search of the forum does not yield the results you are looking for. So simply put, it makes answers to common problems more easily searchable and accessible.
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@ianfontinell Actually, we're working on a workaround to that with the new inbox system so that if you upload a torrent and someone sends you a PM from the torrent page, your username only becomes known to that user if you choose to respond to the PM.
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@MrMazda what about the torrent page, don't you think the uploader's name should be hidden regardless of their privacy preferences?
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@ianfontinell As far as I am aware, the uploader of any torrent (regardless of their privacy settings) is only visible to staff. Regular users and public search indexes will only see "Anonymous"
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@MrMazda i ask because until just a few days ago, it was public, only users with "strong" privacy would appear as anonymous. So it is that the current labels still reflect this behavior:
I'd like to take the opportunity to ask about this one:
Why is everything limited to unreasonable numbers now?
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