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Re #86: I see know evidence that grex is in the process of determining when it is appropriate to personal favors for favored persons. So far all I am seeing is an adhocracy in which anyone can make a proposal and allow a vote, no matter how ridiculous the requests. As mary correctly notes, you *are* setting a precedent and I have not seen one substantive discussion of how this will be treated as a precedent and whether future requests will be via the same process. At the very least, it seems to me the standard should be that the "default" is that users control their own words. Certainly that has been the general rule in the past. To create an exception to that principle there should be some sort of criteria to be met to justify the exception. In case ya'll haven't noticed, I have asked for good reasons to jusitify the exceptions. I've asked jep to point me to old posts of his where his thoughts are explained coherently. He hasn't done so. He has said it has nothing to do with legal implications. He says he wished a similar item was available to him. He says he doesn't want to have to explain anything to his son. As I mentioned elsewhere, that cat is out of the bag. His son will end up finding these coop items instead. Nor has *ANYONE* addressed my scenario in which a drug addict, sex addict, etc. could post an extremely helpful and informative item on addiction and then claim it should be deleted based on jep's selfish "I don't want my son to know" precedent. Such a precedent is incredibly damaging to grex. And it would be nice if jep and some of his supporters could argue honestly about this. It is not honest to say the deleted posts of others have little or no value when jep himself wished such an item existed before. And no one has argued for an absolute inflexible "principle". The rules against posting credit card numbers are one example. So ditch the red herrings and start talking about on what grounds you will recognize exceptional requests for deleting the words of others. What criteria should be applied? Don't kid yourselves. This is ALL about precedent.
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