It's because I might, if I genuinely believed it was in the interest of peace and understanding, share information from posts on Board77 with people outside it. This is exactly what wilko185 threatened to do
Wasn't it wilko's threat to reveal information specifically from the invitation threads, that was determined to be the problem, and isn't that what was addressed in his arbitration? Wasn't it determined that this was the problem because board policy specifies that the invitation threads (but not anything else) be treated as confidential? Although some people initially reacted very strongly to wilko's threat, I don't recall many people maintaining, in the ensuing discussion, that everything said on board77 should or realistically could be kept confidential.
Ethel, are you saying that you might reveal information from the invitation threads, if you thought it was the right thing to do? In that case, it seems the proper response would be the same as for wilko, and you would essentially be disqualifying yourself from having access to the invitation threads.
No. I am saying that I
might reveal information from elsewhere on the board, if and only if I believed it would help rather than hurt people to do so. This is what wilko threatened to do, and for the same reason. (We both have friends from TORC who feel massively hurt over this closed board.) I specifically agree not to do this with the contents of the Invites forum, however.
During the arbitration we asked wilko if he was prepared to promise that he would not reveal anything from the Invites forum. Since he would not make that promise, we recommended that his access to the forum remain restricted.
However, this was not a satisfactory conclusion for some. They interpreted the ruling to mean it was now okay to cut and paste anything, from any thread, to anyone at TORC or elsewhere.
My request for a hearing on my banning was inspired by this post:
I disagree fundamentally with the whitewash of an arbitration ruling. Completely. Totally. Wholeheartedly. As we had no rule in situ, I would have looked at what the board is. Closed and private. Now it appears that copy/pasting is officially sanctioned unless it is the Thinking Of England and Invites Forums. That's just wrong.
In this thread:
http://www.phpbber.com/phpbb/viewtopic. ... um=board77
I want to give Lidless and those who agree with them the opportunity to rectify what they see as "just wrong."