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Jan Dembowski 11:28 pm on March 9, 2015

Agenda for Thursday March 12th support meetup

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Item for discussion:

Editing links from posts – Generally, that only done in extreme cases and search engine hits is never an extreme case. Defining that verbiage more clearly in the Forum Welcome may be helpful and prevent some of those requests.

Please post in the comments any items you’d like considered for discussion. Or bring them to Thursday’s meetup, we are an easy going crowd. 😉

James Huff (MacManX) 11:17 pm on March 11, 2015
I won’t be able to attend this week, so I’m just dropping off a requested agenda item:

We really need to clearly define, “In extreme circumstances” from our deletion policy, because really everyone rightfully thinks they’re an extreme circumstance. In the .com forums, our guidelines state “Forum topics will only be deleted at the discretion of Staff if they represent a valid security or personal safety concern.” It’s much harder for folks to claim a “valid security or personal safety concern” if none exists, and really I think this is what we shoot for in the .org forums anyway.

@anevins would also like to add to the policy these specific points:
- What extreme circumstances are (specifically spell them out)
- What does a public forum entail
- How it is none of our business what search engines index (for the guy who asked for us to remove old threads from Google)
- Saying that mods may turn shortlinks into actual links if they see them
- Reinforcing that if you cannot share information publicly then you will struggle to get support from the forum

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