[HP4GU-FAQ] Re: General Policy Stuff

[Amanda Geist]

Cindy:

> <low moan>
>
> It's *not* a big issue.  That's what I've been trying to say!
>
> The FAQ list already *has* a policy (we scrub if and when we bring in
> new members, and this is done to protect new members from reading
> embarrassing mentions of themselves).  It works *fine.*  We have never,
> *ever* had a problem with it, so far as I know.  We rarely even need to
> *think* about it.  No one has provided a single reason why the status
> quo needs to be disturbed.

Well, possibly because not all of us were aware of it. I am unwilling to let
this become An Issue, but I am equally unwilling to let my silence be
consent. I do not give consent for my posts to be deleted by anyone other
than myself, and I'm not sure Yahoo gave it on my behalf, either.

Hypothetical: if you'd asked Sheryll to delete her post, but she'd seen
nothing wrong with it, and declined--what would have happened? From my
reading of the current policy, you'd have deleted it anyway and apologized.
I can't agree to a policy where someone other than the author deletes posts.
This is very too much like altering history for me.

I think we spend far too much time discussing new members. I think if they
want to help, they're in. I don't know why we have to discuss them at all.
This was always a "jump in, the water's fine" type list in the past; lately
(it feels to me) that it has gotten a bit exclusionary.

~Amanda