| I wanted to keep out of this myself as a few people see involvement by me as some sort of red rag excuse to go off at a tangent. Please can we keep this on topic?
Once again the MT are put in a no win situation, damned if we do, damned if don’t. I will say that I am disappointed that this is now in the public forum; - I noticed that you sent a u2u message to the webteam but have now gone “public”, not sure if that is due to impatience from no reply or dissatisfaction with the reply.
As it happens we had a full MT meeting yesterday and this was discussed at length, the webteam were following instruction from a unanimous decision by the MT, - although I must add and hope that you will appreciate this is not about what we the MT find offensive it is about responsibility to members, which is our primary function
Firstly we had complaints, if we have a complaint from somebody out of respect for that person (or in this case a few people) we will look at the situation. The reasons for those complaints ranged from personal taste, questions about the value they bring to this message board, and the primary reason from quite a few people is that having them here will mean that they will get in trouble with their employers, - serious trouble including disciplinary action as viewing breaks in some cases a signed code of conduct on internet use.
What I guess is that most of you do not realise is that whilst we are not hosting them we are linking anybody opening the thread to a site that will be on a banned list. E.g. if the picture is on bigjugs.com the persons browsing our thread will look as if he is looking at bigjugs.com. Now if we knowing that allow this to continue are we not negligent in our responsibility to members? Members that have complained about this. What I did not myself realise until yesterday was that even avatars hosted by banned sites will have the same effect. Perhaps some of you do not have experience of some of the bigger corporations but there are plenty of people here who would be liable to disciplinary action as a result of what has been on the message board of late, - now if somebody can tell me why we should be party to that please do say so. – I guess a lot of you may also not realise the spyware software on your work PC’s that do have auto alerts on them going to network managers every time you open a thread like these.
Please I ask that you Pietro and others appreciate that ther is more to this than mere censorship. |