NEWS
22nd November 2009
Forums - good or bad?
Forums can be a good
way of getting information, when they are used properly. Unfortunately,
along with other sites on the internet, they are now increasingly being
improperly used and even used for bullying or libelling by posters using
pseudonyms.
It being our turn to be
victims of an attack recently, we have seen how easy it is for anyone to
say anything about anybody, ask questions and answer them themselves,
make insinuations, etc. Some of these postings even degenerate
into offensive language which some webmasters do nothing to discourage,
declaring that their only interest is to see the number of visitors
increasing!
In spite of what might
be seen on these forums, Cretanagora, in defence, has only made one
posting on one forum and we used our own name of Cretanagora.
Should forums also be
allowed to infringe privacy? We know of an artist who was
horrified to learn, from returning customers wishing her well, that her
illness had been discussed on a forum, and of a photographer whose
studio was closed for siesta feeling obliged to open when someone
knocked on the door - in case there was a bad write-up on a forum!
In conclusion, we feel
forums should be taken with a pinch of salt...
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