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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Jan. 2007 ~ Mar. 2007: Moderator Messages & Information (ARCHIVES): Archive through October 24, 2005 users admin

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Denecee
Member

09-05-2002

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
Great job! I've been on here for two seconds and I already love the new look. Thank you!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Valid point, Coco. Some boards show in their topics area who is presently logged in whether they post or not, but heck we'd all have to buy huge monitors to get that page on it then, because I got TVCH open all day long when I am online, and I bet I am not alone.

Coco
Member

07-13-2000

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Coco a private message Print Post    
Hmmm....interesting point BR.

Library is a bit different I'd think. I wouldn't care if the public knew I had a library card, I just wouldn't want them to know what I had borrowed to read.

Here, we all post our thoughts in the Members Area and I believe we should know who all the members are and when they last logged in. It doesn't mean that they specifically came to read the Members Area only, just means that they were indeed logged onto our board. No harm done in my book.

Okay, I'm off to work. Everyone have a great day!

EDIT: Hi Lumbele, I'm a slow poster...just saw your post after posting. Thanks for your thoughts!




Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Lol

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I agree with the not wanting others to know what I'd checked out in the library. There's one forum I go to (can't remember which one, I don't go there often), and if you click on their profile, it will also tell you if they are currently on-line (or logged in), and what area of the board they are currently reading, including if they are viewing someone's profile! Now that is a bit extreme!

Llkoolaid
Member

08-01-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
I don't post what I don't want public, simple easy way to keep your privacy, but I have to say, I have wondered why the heck anyone would be interested in snooping into our conversations. I kind of have two personalities on this board, one that posts and another who goes to chat and that is where I say what I need to the people that I have come to know and trust. I must say that there are some wonderful people here who have helped me through some very very hard times, they know who they are and they know how I feel about them. Anything else is trivial and for fun, except when I used to go to news and views and a few posters used to tick me off so much that I stay away, far, far away. Anyway this was a long winded way of saying simply if you don't want it out there, don't put it out there.

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
On a personal level, I don't mind anyone knowing that I've logged in here. My position on the privacy issue is simply about the principle of it. Although I may have an interest in knowing, I don't believe I should have a right to know who reads here without posting and when they visit.
Just my New-Englander-roots-showing 2 cents. :-)

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
I know I feel like a lurker lately!! On another board I post to it shows if you are currently "online" under your username - but then you can chose to be "invisible"... I think it just depends on how a board is set up, I do appreciate the safeguards to privacy on this board btw!!

(back to lurking!)

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I've been on many sites that show who's online and I never thought it was a problem.

Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 11:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
I believe in privacy. I don't want people to "track" me across the internet, trying to figure out where I've been, and when I've been there. Trying to figure out my motives for posting, or not posting, or lurking, or whatever it is I happen to be doing at the time. I support any and all safeguards to privacy this site can offer.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Well all it's giving is a number count. So it's all good.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
I am with you Weinermr. Well said!

Why does it matter if someone lurks and doesn't post?

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Good points Wiener!

Just to clarify, I don't go tracking folks across the internet. I don't have the time, energy or patience for that.

The most active "search" I did for anyone was when I tried to let players of the Football Pool game from last year know that it was starting up again this year. Some people I found, some I didn't. Some I knew why, others I didn't. After that, it wasn't really up to me to figure out why some didn't come back. I figured I'd done everything I could to let them know it was on.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I leave my puter on for days sometimes...so it might show I am logged in but didn't actually come to the puter for hours.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Whomum, I don't think your PMing someone to remind them about the football game is the same thing as wanting to know when someone is currently visiting TVCH.

We know you aren't a stalker.

Zachsmom
Member

07-13-2000

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
Personally, I do not like the 'last logged on' feature. It's no one's business when I have come to the board and visited a members area. If for whatever reason the moderators want to know when a member last logged on, they have the tools to find out.

i do not like how the members area topics are listed on the front page. i think more stealth members would join just to see what others are saying. While i would never post something in a members area that i wouldn't post out here, i have seen many people who post, who share some of the most intimate details of their life thinking only 'active' members are reading.
while it is the responsibility of the poster to not post such private details, i think the administrators should not advertise the private members area publically and what topics are being discussed and who is discussing them.


Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
The member's area isn't one of the topics featured on the front page, so I am unclear why everyone is worried about that area showing on frontpage

Zachsmom
Member

07-13-2000

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
sure it is pamy, under general forums, members area and caring place are the first two topics listed. they do not have the threads titles, but they do have topics of discussion under caring place they have "caring place", "tvch updates" etc..under members area they have the listing of members folder (a-c,d-j etc)

unless someone is registered, they really should not see or know about these areas.

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
But on the other hand, knowing that these sorts of areas are available with membership might encourage people to join... :-)


Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 2:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Ok I noticed the aubergine on Other Reality Shows. Very nice.

Shadoe
Member

11-04-2004

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shadoe a private message Print Post    
Bah, I don't care who knows where I am because they don't really know at all.
The lights are on, but nobody's home in my case.
I am pretty much signed onto MSN messenger all the time in case Eeyore wants to leave me a quick message. And why bother signing out of somewhere to just have to sign back in later. The epitomy of lazy, I am.
Actually, now that I think about it, I have no clue what you guys are talking about so I'll stop now.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Coco, others have pointed this out and let me reiterate it here. Most boards that tell you who is currently on line also have the option of making yourself "invisible" if you choose not to show up in those lists. Our software does not have that option, so we are unwilling to publish names of who is around.

We did discuss the issue of what areas should show up and we were fine with titles of those areas showing up. It is not at all unusual for message boards to have member only areas visible but not accessible; and that's the case with us too, on the home page as well as on the topics page (as it has always been on the topics page). It is actually an invitation to join, and we do want new members!!!

The general headings have always shown up on the topics page, visible to everyone, and no one has complained about that before. The only additional detail is some of the thread names in the member only areas and we purposefully chose thread names that were of a less sensitive nature for A Caring Place. We don't see the fact that the members area is divided into alphabetical areas as particularly revealing or sensitive. :-)

However, people who are curious and with not the best motives do join. That has ALWAYS been the case! Everyone should always be aware that aside from a valid Email address and a reasonable profile, member applications are NOT screened to any great extent. Everyone should always exercise caution and their own discretion about what they post, even in member only areas. I know we all get very comfortable here, perhaps too comfortable sometimes, and it serves as a good reminder that we should always remember that even posts in the member area are not *private* in any real way.



Grannyg
Member

05-28-2002

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
I guess at one time or another, each one of us has had our moments when we thought something or someone was just not all they seemed to be. Kar is right in that we get comfortable and post like we would in an email. I know there are times when I do. And then I get leary and wonder why in the world did I do that.

I truly hope that no one is here for any other reason than to have a good time and catch up with "friends". I have met a lot of the posters and a lot I haven't met but I feel comfortable with them. One time when I was in my "scarey" mode, I talked to Dra about it and it made me feels lots better knowing that the Mods were watching over the entire board and when something or someone just wasn't clicking, they took steps to protect us in our innocence. Like moving threads or (my speciality) posting pics of someone who didn't want to be "out there for the world to see".

I truly appreciate all the Mods do to keep this place as safe as any public place can be kept safe. And I trust them to know when there are people here only to cause trouble. If someone is just reading my posts for the heck of it, then as long as they are not messing with me in my private life, I have no complaints. Well dang, this turned into a book. Sorry. All I really have to say is that I trust the Mods to "take care" of us as much as they can and the rest it left up to us.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 4:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I'm not wearing any panties right now...feel free to post that on the front page

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Monday, October 24, 2005 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
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