Comments on: What does your photo hosting service say about you? http://lornamatic.com/wordpress/2009/06/10/213/ Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:59:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Michael http://lornamatic.com/wordpress/2009/06/10/213/comment-page-1/#comment-8417 Michael Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:05:17 +0000 http://lornamatic.com/wordpress/?p=213#comment-8417 What makes sense to me is: Data storage should be separated from participation in a community. In other words, your data should be safe, but you should be taken out of public view/search/etc. until you exhibit whatever "community standards" behavior is required for legal operation of a site. Making these two the same (deleting photos for someone whose offense is being rude in a community) is just punitive and will make users find other solutions as they become available. What makes sense to me is: Data storage should be separated from participation in a community.

In other words, your data should be safe, but you should be taken out of public view/search/etc. until you exhibit whatever “community standards” behavior is required for legal operation of a site.

Making these two the same (deleting photos for someone whose offense is being rude in a community) is just punitive and will make users find other solutions as they become available.

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