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Grex > Coop > #278: Grex Town Hall -- How do we move forward? |  |
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richard
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response 193 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:08 UTC 2010 |
re #192 no they didn't want censorship, they wanted trolling to not be
encouraged and they wanted name calling and use of needless derogatory
hurtful language to not be ignored by staff. why do you think valerie
mates left? She was being picked on troll-like by a group of users
mostly from mnet who had it in for her and she felt like she was being
ridiculed, and staff was too high minded to step in and try to do
anything. It wasn't worth it to her to stay around and put up with
mean spirited behaviour in order to read the good posts. She saw Grex
as maintaining a board rather than trying to maintain a community with
good civility. So she left and took all her posts down.
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lar
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response 194 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:15 UTC 2010 |
This response has been erased.
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lar
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response 195 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:16 UTC 2010 |
Oh shut the fuck up you dumbass...you don;t have a clue what you are
talking about. She left because she got her panties in a wad over the
parody of her baby item in m-net's agora. slynne,mynxcat and a host of
other
GREXORS posted in the item just having fun.
get the facts straight you lying sack of shit
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richard
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response 196 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:18 UTC 2010 |
She felt that was ridiculing her, picking on her
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tod
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response 197 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:19 UTC 2010 |
re #193
why do you think valerie
mates left?
She didn't like dissent.
she left and took all her posts down.
She left and took EVERYONE's posts down in the parenting conference. we
had some legitimate discussions going on. She was very pro breastfeeding
of toddlers or whatnot and some of us differed on that front. So
instead of simply agreeing to disagree or what have you, she zippety
zapped all the items in that conference. And believe you me, I had
volunteered MANY times to co-FW in that conference and was ignored.
I won't dish out my own suspected gender discrimination in that whole
ordeal but I will say that I was displeased to have lost so much content
of discussion (not just of hers.)
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richard
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response 198 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:21 UTC 2010 |
I thought staff should have put those posts back into the Parenting
conf but they declined, that would have been 'censoring' Valerie right?
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lar
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response 199 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:22 UTC 2010 |
#re197
she is a neurotic cunt,she is smart as hell but her head is still
fucked up.
re#196
as for running people away I do wish the fuck you and keesan would both
go find some other place to vomit your stupidity on
therefore I will troll the two of you from now on.
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tod
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response 200 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:35 UTC 2010 |
re #198
I thought staff should have put those posts back into the Parenting
conf but they declined
They all admitted it was censorship. Mary was the biggest supporter
of censoring because Valerie is a "friend of Grex" while the
rest of us are peasants or something.
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richard
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response 201 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:37 UTC 2010 |
valerie also used the same little program she wrote to delete her
posts, to also delete those of JEP in one particular agora. JEP had
written I thought very honestly and eloquently about his divorce and
then some time later regretted doing so and asked that all his posts on
that subject be removed. IFRC staff declined his request but then
Valerie, who was herself staff, did it for him anyway on her own. This
action took out the posts in items that a lot of others responded to,
and left a couple of items full of holes with the responses that are
left there now out of context.
These are excellent reasons why if there is a new version of grex, that
it should be stated posts can only be edited or deleted by poster for a
short period of time after posting. After 'x' amount of time, the
copyright reverts to Grex and the item and responses are considered
published.
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lar
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response 202 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:39 UTC 2010 |
mary is a total slut...an old ugly one at that. the only one who made
any real sense on staff in those days was cross. fatass STeve and ugly
glenda could not stand his superior knowledge so they got all defensive
and shit. mary was such a commie cunt she made cross resign from
staff..with a little help from naftee and polytarp
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lar
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response 203 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:42 UTC 2010 |
re# 201
no dumbass,this is why grex should have backups to restore items like
that and once a root pulls nazi bullshit like popcunt did then the
privileges should be revoked.
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tod
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response 204 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:42 UTC 2010 |
Well, if Grex told me that they expect to have copyright of all
my entries in BBS then I would probably stop participating. I don't
want people (including Grex) having the right to steal my creative
works or relayed expressions of my own experiences. I'm also against
having my entries webcrawled to the Internet. Grex has always been
a spot where I can converse freely to whatever set of participants
are listed for a particular conference. I have never seen Grex
as a place to "blog".
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lar
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response 205 of 357:
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Jun 24 22:45 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."
Your stupidity knows no bounds. popcunt had root and this allowed her
to do anything she wanted. no lame ass bbs block could stop that bitch
just shut up richard,you are a fucking fool
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richard
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response 206 of 357:
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Jun 24 23:17 UTC 2010 |
It is not a matter of 'expecting' to have copyright. They do have
copyright. Look at the bottom of the home page on the website where it
says: " 2008 Copyright grex.org. All Rights Reserved". Grex has to
be responsible for what is posted on its site. If someone posts an
item advocating specific acts of terrorism in Agora, the feds are not
going to buy any claim that grex's board/staff are in no way
responsible because they claim no copyrights. By use of this board to
post, you consent to grex's publishing your work and grex retains
responsibility for the consequences of publishing it. It has to
because you can get a login here and post without divulging who you
are. Grex has to accept that it holds the legal liability for open
anonymous posting.
We had this discussion back when the Communications Decency Act and
Michigan's version of it were being proposed. It was even suggested
that if the Michigan CDA took effect that the entire Grex board should
resign so that it would be difficult for the state to hold anyone
responsible for what is posted here.
re #24 5tod you said earlier you were against valerie removing her
posts in that conf, and now it seems you agree with her that she owned
her posts. contradictory?
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mary
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response 207 of 357:
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Jun 24 23:32 UTC 2010 |
Tod, sometimes it boggles my mind how you can be so confident and wrong
at the same time. You've made comments like resp. #200 before - "Mary
was the biggest supporter of censoring because Valerie is a "friend of
Grex" while the rest of us are peasants or something".
All the history on this incident is still available, here, on Grex, word
for word. Someone else will have to site the conference and item
numbers.
I didn't support Valerie's actions and I was a strong advocate of
restoring the deleted items. My position actually cost me a few
friendships but I still believe allowing it to go down the way it did
was wrong. Very wrong. I'd take that same position today no matter the
persons involved. But the community voted otherwise. Such is
democracy. Most of us accepted that and moved on.
There is integrity in honesty. Try it on for size, you may like the
respect that comes with it.
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marcvh
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response 208 of 357:
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Jun 24 23:50 UTC 2010 |
Summary: we cannot move forward, because this community is incapable of
anything other than navel-gazing and obsessing about minutiae.
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lar
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response 209 of 357:
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Jun 24 23:52 UTC 2010 |
re#207 don't laud your self rightoeusness with me you ugly whore....you
had
the gall to contact a previous employer of mine.
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mary
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response 210 of 357:
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Jun 25 00:04 UTC 2010 |
It wasn't always like that, Marc. I tend to think of the Grex community
as family. You know, real family not the idealized version where everyone
likes everyone else. We get thrown together and have to learn to get
along. Mostly. Or at least learn to tolerate what we can't accept. It's
a valuable experience. But maybe, just maybe, at some point, we learn
enough to move on. Next stop, the Well, where adults bicker. ;-)
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tod
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response 211 of 357:
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Jun 25 00:12 UTC 2010 |
re #207
There is integrity in honesty. Try it on for size, you may like the
respect that comes with it.
Feel free to post your comments from January 2004 regarding the restoration.
If I'm mistaking your comments for Glenda or somebody then I apologize. I
am fairly certain though that I recall you defending Val's actions as
"favored persons who are friends of Grex" or something along those lines.
I appreciate that you have a hardened stance against censorship.
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kentn
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response 212 of 357:
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Jun 25 00:16 UTC 2010 |
Re 206, by that logic, look at the bbs at the command line. Right
there near the top it says "Copyright 2001-2005, Jan Wolter" therefore
Jan owns the copyright to the conference responses. I'd like more
clarification on what the copyright situation really is. From what I've
seen since I've been here, Grex doesn't want to own people's words,
but maybe the law forces that upon us. If so, as Rane has shown, a
copyright policy can be put in place that divides copyright between
users for their individual responses and Grex for the collection of
responses and their presentation.
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tod
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response 213 of 357:
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Jun 25 00:18 UTC 2010 |
I'm feeling an urge to parody this item over on m-net.
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richard
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response 214 of 357:
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Jun 25 01:40 UTC 2010 |
re #212 actually that backtalk copyright indicates it expired in 2006,
so possibly this means the program is in the public domain now and
anybody here who can get the code and knows how to do it could do some
of these updates we've been suggesting.
Also consider this, if in fact Grex does get sued over something
posted here, and the specific post or posts are edited after the fact,
how can Grex defend what was originally posted? Allowing users, past
a stated time period, the right to permanently edit or remove any item
or response they put up at any time paat or present, could leave grex
in a legally vulnerable situation. Grex IS publishing these posts, it
is putting them on the internet.
If somebody enters an item on how to do terrorist acts and then
deletes it a day later, it has still been on grex and published on the
internet for a day and if the item was deleted how can grex defend
itself against those who will use their imaginations to exaggerate to
authorities as to what was posted? Grex isn't and can't be invisible
in these matters, it has to assert copyright.
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lar
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response 215 of 357:
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Jun 25 01:44 UTC 2010 |
you are a total fool,shut up idiot,you don't have a fucking clue
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kentn
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response 216 of 357:
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Jun 25 02:15 UTC 2010 |
Good grief. The copyright didn't expire in 2006. That just means
it's probably the last time new code was added to the program and
copyrighted. Copyrights in the U.S. go for many decades and certainly
don't end the year they were begun.
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richard
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response 217 of 357:
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Jun 25 02:26 UTC 2010 |
They can go on for many decades, but that one said 1996-2006. It was
for a decade. Did they bother to renew it?
I suppose Grex could buy new conferencing software. Anybody know any
good ones on the market?
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