B_Nicodemous
Experimental Member
Oh don't go getting all grumpatsic on me:wink::tongue:. Everyone has the right to privacy. HOWEVER if they are putting up naked pics on a public form, then they should expect that some part of there life is gonna be public. Same if they show up in chat and cam. As fP pointed out, even if you are hidden or in private you still show up as on cam on the main board. Personal resonsibillity needs to come into play at some point.entitled to privacy?
i guess rationalization tops respect.
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hottest pic threads.. i don't participate in those either.
Ok, as an example i will use the blogs. As you know, I was an avid blogger. Now mine were public, and I had no right to bitch if people saw a public blog. However I could have made them private, restricting it to only those people I wished to share with (in this case my friends) BUUUUUUUTTTTTT the blog still appears in the side bar of the main page. Oh wait, actually it is visible unless I am at my or someone else's profile. It stays visible, TITLE and all, until it gets bumped down off the splash bar, yes? Anyone who happens to be looking then can see that i blog and an approximation of what I am blogging about (if I choose a tittle that is indicative of what is in the blog.)
I cannot then complain if someone, in a thread, comments that I blog. It's obvious I do. I can't even really get mad if all of them are private and one of my friends comments that they like my blog because of the rich detail, or sexy/silly tone. The have not really given anything away. Now if they started describing SPECIFIC things I wrote about, from a private blog, that is a totally different matter. That would be a breach of privacy much like printing PM's or emails that I sent them without there permission.*
*before you point out that I skated that in my intro thread I would like to point out that A) I posted MY email to the friend I was addressing, not their email, and B) it contained NOTHING that is not a matter of public record (in this case the fact he had shaved his pubes: He has a PUBLIC gallery that includes the pics). My comment was one that, had I been a member here at the time, I would have posted DIRECTLY under said pics.
What has this to do with camming? Everything. As has been mentioned, even if you go in invisible, and change your cam status so no one in the room can see it, the fact that your cam is on STILL registers on the main pages. Knowing that, one has to take some responsibility in the slight invasion of privacy that occurs. In fact they themselves are relinquishing a bit of their privacy in order to cam (or blog, or post pics), even in private.
The other threads you mentioned? It's not just the "Whose hot" that can be compared to the breach of privacy, but the ones of "Who have you met in person", "who would you like to meet" (which invariably results in the who people have actually already met), "Which member would you like to see" (again people will start listing people they have seen and comment on them), and on and on.
I recall one such thread where people were commenting on Petite. They were describing her, her apparel, etc (general comments for the most part, in the same vain as the ones fP used here to describe her favorite cammers) and she seemed to have not only no issue, but commented back, in a positive manner. Why do I use Petite as an example? Simply put she is the MOST private person I know. Being her friend I respect that privacy and go above and beyond to ensure that. Unless something she said was in a public thread, I don't mention it. I tend to use her as benchmark of sorts, lol I would assume that in the event you cammed with a person, they would have to be fairly close to you, and would know of your desire for privacy and not to mention camming sessions unless prior consent form you was given. If they still breach that social contract with you, then they either slipped up unintentionally, or deliberately and you can then handle it in whatever way you see fit (within the realms of the TOS) This may be a PM, an in thread "not cool dude" or if it was intentional and malicious, a report to the mods and admins.
Yes, privacy and a persons right to it (my bad for using entitled), is of utmost concern. If anyone has any questions, concerns or doubts, they can ask the person if it is OK that they reveal whatever (I do so all the damn time, the only time i haven't being the aforementioned intro post)
Oh and like public albums, blogs, and cam sessions: if anyone participates in these, then they cannot act like whiny little twits and complain that people know they have pics, blogs, or cam sessions going.
Those who make such things private should be aware that even then it is not as private as they think.
There is always SOME form of public account that will alert people to what you are doing (just not the details of what is going on. The pics could be of cakes and pets, the cam sessions could be someone being walked through an exercise routine, and the blog could just be something that the blogger thought others outside the circle would just not have to see, like say the details of a colonoscopy) Something for all of us to keep in mind.
*braces for ML to beat the living crap out of me*