On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote: We are normally able to figure out when something is particularly embarrassing. I, at least, have no hesitation in erring on the side of caution by blanking discussions if I think them problematic - before there are any complaints. I still don't see the problem - perhaps it could be done more often. RR

The reason I'd argue against pre-emptive blanking and/or pre-emptive No_Index'ing is that we essentially take what I consider the arrogant and condensending position that we know better than the target what would or wouldn't be embarrassing to that target.? I've never felt that it's our mandate to be the guardians of other people's privacy.? If so-and-so blp feels that we shouldn't mention that they were arrested for drunk driving they can come forward with their request.? Some people don't care. The same goes for our own editors.? Do we put ourselves in the position of deciding what to oversight *without any request* from the target party?? If someone did that ostensibly in my favor, I would be offended by that action personally.? I certainly wouldn't thank them, or find their actions productive, helpful or even polite. Our project should not be attempting to pre-emptively solve all issues, because we cannot.? We have mechanisms in place to handle each issue that's been mentioned already.? We don't need more creeping. Will Johnson