Hoi,
It has been said and confirmed, that people who have the bits to check user
on a project, are beholden to the rules of that community. There is no
formal or other connection to the foundation or the organisation. It is
really nice that you consider this fact fud but that does not make it so.
Please read back on this thread to find the relevant bits.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com
private musings wrote:
hmmm.... can't quite agree with you, Jussi.
I share some of Slim's concerns on this one, though I write more as a
reprobate whose multiple accounts were detected late last year - also the
comparison with the animal rights movement's attempts to decentralise
made
sense to me - it seemed like an apt analogy.
Well, it just isn't.
I find it quite laughable that anyone would assume that
a checkuser would be somehow "free as a bird" to do what
they wish in terms of their technical widgets, with no
connexion to the foundation at all. Even suggesting that
is tantamount to FUD in the third degree to my mind.
Does it really matter if people are checkusered
regularly, with a
liberally
low bar, and the information garnered from such
checks is shared between
friends and colleagues equally liberally?
Maybe, maybe not - but I think that's kinda the status quo, and I think
people deserve the right to question it without being poo pooed -
especially
when it's not really reflected by what's
written on the tin at the policy
pages.
On the other hand - I see this thread's purpose was intended to be a
review
of the new draft of the privacy policy. I think
it's an improvement - I
think the key issues relate to the ways it's implemented - I would like
to
assume for example that some rigour is applied to
the assessment of
external
legal claims before IP data is handed over.
best,
Peter
PM.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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