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i have posts in the various lounge threads ranging from pleas for ideas to deal with situations and issues in my life to hybrid virtual/real world christmas gifts to some of my favorite members. i am personally delighted by the fact that something of me still remains in your archive and i have no objections to you holding on to those posts.
My posts can stay; if it matters. Not a problem for me.
What this looks like to me is this: a community denied a chance to say goodbye slowly coming to terms over the course of the day. Whether the archive grabbed helped or hurt I don’t know; it’s my firm belief it was done as an attempt to help provide that closure, so I certainly don’t hold it’s maker in any ill will.
Studying the csv suggests that I didn’t really post much in the lounge-- though I did read stuff like the Mormonism thread-- and that was interesting.
All you radicals might have a hard time forgiving me for this, but my reaction might best described as a conservative one-- an irrational pining for what was lost…
That doesn’t mean that others haven’t been objectively harmed by the loss of this resource, but for me, it’s a more of a feeling that we have all been “put on notice”. A chill in the air.
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Is that what everybody wants?[/quote]
What everybody wants is for the events of the last couple of days to not have happened. (And when I say “everybody” of course I mean excepting those who caused them to happen in the first place.)
As for the archive: when the decision to close the lounges was announced, a whole bunch of people started fretting over lost access to information (gifs, links, pithy comments) stored there. I understand (and mainly agree with) the arguments against the lounge posts being archived, but honestly @tinoesroho thought he was doing a service that many people requested, and there should be some appreciation for that effort instead of the immediate massive vilification.
I’m sorry you see it like that and maybe feeling hurt by such.
It was totally not my intention of this topic. And If I read trough it, I don’t see it. From the first posts I see people mentioning the good intentions, but also saying: “No I don’t want to be in such an archive”. During the discussion it gets indeed a bit heated, as I see it it was more frustration about the feeling not getting trough and/or been listened to.
Getting trough about the privacy concerns. It could have been friendlier , but still no “massive vilification”. Just honest concerns and frustration.
If people feel like that, giving a thanks is a bit difficult, all the mentioning seeing the good intention is not a bad score.
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And it is all heated, and like @Melizmatic said, it’s a bad time to lash out to people.
But again, such was not my intention. And I don’t see much of that above, unless saying “No, please don’t” is lashing out. In all the heat people jump to things. To keep at this topic:
One goes into grabbing, with well intentions, other people semi private data. To be shared semi public.
And I went fighting windmills. Knowing it was just the last part op the welcoming chat from the lounge. Going full fledged into the privacy discussion “Its not about the content of the data, it’s about consent. opt-in or opt-out. Possible risk to privacy breaches when such data is stored at more servers/computers than the discourse ones. And such.”.
