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lar
response 152 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:25 UTC 2010

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response 153 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:25 UTC 2010

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response 154 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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response 155 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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response 156 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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response 157 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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response 158 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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lar
response 159 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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response 160 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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lar
response 161 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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response 162 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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response 163 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:27 UTC 2010

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tod
response 164 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 16:51 UTC 2010

<gets indignant>
*tut tut*
kentn
response 165 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 17:21 UTC 2010

You'll only be able to edit one response at a time via the usual
interface.  So each of those responses can be denied or approved based
on their date/time stamps if we were able to implement that feature.

While it is true that discussions here quite often generate more heat
than light, at least we are trying to understand and trying determine
how best to do things.  A lack of good information quite often leads
to misunderstandings, too.  So it's fine if someone corrects such a
misunderstanding or asks for more information.  We can move forward from
that point.
richard
response 166 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 17:52 UTC 2010

the time limit is important because it would prevent circumstances like 
when valerie mates decided to leave grex and decided to delete all of 
his past posts she ever made here going back years.
kentn
response 167 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 17:56 UTC 2010

But we're talking about time limits for editing, not deleting.  Are we
proposing a time limit for deleting?
richard
response 168 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 18:01 UTC 2010

I think both are advisable.
kentn
response 169 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 18:03 UTC 2010

That runs counter to the "you own your own responses" rule. 
richard
response 170 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 18:10 UTC 2010

re #169 but on grex you don't own your own responses because you can't 
edit them.  If you write a column in the newspaper, you can't 
retroactively go back and remove all the printed columns because they 
have been printed and everybody has already read them.  They are part 
of the paper's record. I'm all for time-limited editing and deleting, 
say for twelve or twenty four hours or something, but there should come 
a point where the post is considered 'published' and is part of Grex's 
record.  Valerie should not have been allowed to go back and delete all 
her old posts because it makes some items in the old conferences, if 
you went back and read them, not make sense.  Instead of a conference 
that reads like a whole work from a particular point in time, you have 
some old confs that now are full of holes because of what she did.  
kentn
response 171 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 18:25 UTC 2010

Ever hear of copyrights, Richard?
richard
response 172 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 18:33 UTC 2010

re #171 yes and Grex owns the copyright.  If you publish a letter in a 
newspaper, you don't have the right to ask for all copies of that paper 
to be destroyed because you changed your mind about what you wrote.  
When you gave the letter to the paper and they published it, they 
retain the copyrighyt.
kentn
response 173 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 18:44 UTC 2010

Only if Grex asserts copyright.  Under international law the author owns
the copyright to their work, not the publisher.  We could really have
fun with that if it were true (I could just publish someone else's book
and say I own it).  I don't think Grex has ever wished to be the owner
of people's copyright to a conference response.
tonster
response 174 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 19:16 UTC 2010

resp:141: Are you going to re-write backtalk to introduce that
functionality?  Does janc still maintain it?  It's not a function of
backtalk today, therefore it's not possible.

resp:170: I can't really agree with that.  I don't think that it should
be required that everything I write here be forever property of Grex and
I have no right to it's removal, particularly since Grex allows open
viewing of the conferences without a login.  And in case you didn't
realize, Grex is not a newspaper.  We have far more in common with
Facebook than with in newspaper, and oh yeah, you have the ability to
remove your posts from Facebook (and if you remove your account, all
your posts go away too).
richard
response 175 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 19:31 UTC 2010

Actually didn't Facebook assert last year its rights to posters' 
material, because they felt that any comments a user left on another 
user's facebook page shouldn't automatically disappear once that user 
deleted everything from their own page?    Their argument was that if 
you post to another user's facebook page, that does not mean that you 
control their ability to decide who they share *their* page's content, 
which your content is now also part of, with?

kentn
response 176 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 19:33 UTC 2010

When you send a letter to a newspaper, you agree to the terms of the
newspaper regarding what will be done with that letter, including not
publishing it all, editing it, publishing it when they feel like it,
destroying it, adding an editorial comment to it, leaving your typos
and bad grammar in it, etc.  If you don't like those terms, don't send
a letter. Included in those terms is very like a grant of the right to
publish your copyrighted work (once or many times).

Likewise on Grex, we ask that you not publish anything that will get
Grex in trouble (the proverbial credit card numbers), and that could be
construed to include libelous responses and other responses that are
in some way illegal or which govt. agencies may construe to be illegal
or in need of investigation (e.g. anything that would get DHS on our
backs).  

Maybe it's time to revisit the terms you agree to when you post
conference responses, use e-mail, put up a personal web page, etc.
And what Grex may do if you violate those rules.
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