Q for the Mods: Sharing my own reviews?

[blowpop]

A comment by one of the bad attitude brigade inadvertently raised an interesting question for me: According to Eccie, can I share the reviews I write?

The question arose because I confirmed that I shared a review I wrote with the provider who it was written about. Wakeup, in his frenzy to disagree with everything I was doing, seemed positive that I had broken some sort of Eccie rule.

As usual, I think he's full of shit.

The process of posting a review on a forum doesn't transfer copyright (and thus legal control) of the work. And even if it did, it wouldn't retroactively effect activities that were done before the review was posted - I shared the review before I posted it.

Mods, I understand and respect the decision not to allow members to make public or share BCD information. But does Eccie view a member's sharing of his own writing as a violation?

[Champagne Brown]

I hear the Troll coming.. Wait 4 it.

[Abigail (Source of JOY)]

[boardman]

Perhaps we could get a ruling from St. C on the intent of the rule...

[Guest032214-1]

Lord this is gonna be fun tonight. Fuck 'The Voice'! I wanna tune in here tonight.

Btw, BP; you're gonna burn and go to hell. Shame shame shame.

[Jusanotherdude]

The way that I understand it is, that comments made by you are yours to share as the only infringement on private content is your own..... that being said, as soon as the info is posted it is considered PA info and if the provider then posts what she's been told then she is in violation of the guidelines and is subject to the resulting punishment. But you as the posters of the original content are not in violation...... so basically..... you telling TheCFE about the ROS is fine.... her posting about it is not......

Clear as mud?

[AllisonofHouston]

Originally Posted by Abigail (Source of JOY)

Damn sexy girl you beat me to the punch...

[Abigail (Source of JOY)]

Originally Posted by AllisonofHouston

Damn sexy girl you beat me to the punch...

LOL!!

So... Do what your gonna do, just dont tell anyone what you did...right?
Should be easy enough!

[jbravo_123]

Dude, I'd just say it's probably just best to drop it.

Sure, you don't give up your legal rights to what you post, but conversely the owners of the board also don't have a legal duty to allow you to stay here...

Just back away slowly, man.

[Seedy]

Once you open pandoras box, it may be hard to close it back up.

[Pistolero]

Originally Posted by Jusanotherdude

. that being said, as soon as the info is posted it is considered PA info and if the provider then posts what she's been told then she is in violation of the guidelines and is subject to the resulting punishment. But you as the posters of the original content are not in violation.


Clear as mud?

Here is my take on that.

If you post it, there are comments on the review and she wants to know what you said and you tell her, not OK. Once you post it , the PA rules apply..

[Eccie Addict]

Too many interpretations IMO. St C would be the best one to answer I think.

[enderwiggin]

Originally Posted by Eccie Addict

Too many interpretations IMO. St C would be the best one to answer I think.

Why should he have to? The rule is pretty clear: don't share ROS information. It doesn't state when the information becomes ROS or give a statute of limitations or invite discussion/interpretation. Don't share ROS information. Seems pretty simple and straight-forward to me.

The better question is this one: even if you were inclined to share ROS information -- regardless of when -- why would you post publicly admitting to it? Why even invite the drama and controversy, demand of the staff/ownership to come interpret the rules because you think you've found some goofy gray area where you can abide by the letter, but not the spirit of the staffs' intent? We can all read between the lines: you want to set the staff up for failure. No matter which way this comes down, somebody's pissed. There's either a loophole for people to share reviews or you get to puff yourself up with righteous indignation and say the staff is kissing WU's ass. Talk about bad-attitude brigade. WU isn't underhanded enough to do something like this... This is a new low.

Not that he needs it from the likes of me, but my counsel to St. C is to ignore this bullshit altogether and let time unruffle the drama-queen's feathers.

[blowpop]

Ender, so now I'm some sort of troublemaker for asking for clarity? I didn't "demand" anything. I asked a question, because I don't think the rule is clear at all.

Ender I didn't share ROS information. I shared my own information, a copy of which I put in ROS. It's an important distinction - the information was authored by and belongs to me. I choose to share it with the Eccie community.

I want to set the staff up for failure? Um, how is that even possible? I don't set the rules, and I don't interpret them. And I'm rather appalled to hear this question described as "underhanded" - it was a simple question.

Has the environment on Eccie gotten so bad that simple questions from long-term members are viewed as some sort of scheme to undermine the community? If so, then I submit to you, with all due respect, that you're looking in the wrong place to find the problem.

[blowpop]

Originally Posted by Jusanotherdude

The way that I understand it is, that comments made by you are yours to share as the only infringement on private content is your own..... that being said, as soon as the info is posted it is considered PA info and if the provider then posts what she's been told then she is in violation of the guidelines and is subject to the resulting punishment. But you as the posters of the original content are not in violation...... so basically..... you telling TheCFE about the ROS is fine.... her posting about it is not......

Clear as mud?

Thank you for the response, JAD. And I appreciate your professionalism.