by FlipMode » September 19th, 2012, 5:26 pm
[quote="Nicholas"]@Flip Well, I really HOPE you are right that the member Q&A will not be going anywhere. But it just bugs me that if we want to socialise with a specific MLK member, we are from now on forced to do that in a spammy chatboard, where it'll be quite difficult to talk since one conversation usally dominates the whole chatboard. Also, according to the staff, they made this change as well for our own ''safety'' so that non MLK members can't find out personal things about us. I say this is rubbish, because we are not little kids that need ''protection''. We ourselves are responsible for what we post, and I dont think the staff should take responsibility over us.
@DGfone Yes, I agree.[/quote]
While "we" are not little kids who need protecting as you (somewhat bluntly) put it. There are kids on this site, and the staff do in fact owe a little bit of responsibility to monitoring what those young ones can see and who can see what they post. Understand that the minimum age for joining is not 13, you can join younger than that with permission from a parent as I understand that. And while fair enough in that scenario a kid may post their MSN (contact info thread is there) it is still preferable that guests can not see that information. At the moment there are 205 guests online out of 231 users, that means a lot of people are just randomly browsing, people of all ages, countries and such... So it is better that all of those people are unable to see the member HQ where personal details are sometimes posted. The fact is you do not know how old those guests are, it only takes one child to post their details in there and for the wrong person to be able to see it.
My Facebook used to be there, which if you go onto it has all my other details, where I live, where I work, my college, family, friends and more. I do not mind people here being able to see it - but I do have a problem with random people (not to mention, banned members) being able to also see it.
In short there is no reason for guests to be able to see the Member HQ - if you want to post there then you would have to log in anyway.
I mean, heck didn't someone post their mobile number there before?
These changes were clearly aimed at some members of the board more than others, they have little relevance to me personally but I understand that there are a lot of other people on here which they may apply to. Its not my site, or yours, or even really Moka's... There are way too many people on here for that sort of mentality, sometimes at its busiest there are around 500 individual people on and we have 3000 members (not counting the... Countless amounts of guests). They are not ghosts, they are real people that exist believe it or not. So some changes, such as this one - do not apply to everyone as much as they do to others. ^^