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Originally Posted by MissLadyLoki
I voted yes cause there is too many people lurking around and looking and not being members, which can be a problem. Also, it seems perfectly right that if you wanna read the boards, you have gotta be a member, as with many forums (such as IMDb, which I was once a member of).
As for worries about less people coming in, the Penguin comes up in searches a lot if someone is looking for something related to the Mac, and they could easily find this board afterwards.
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Exactly how are lurkers a "problem." Your post seems to suggest a perjorative meaning to the word "lurker." To me a lurker is a "reader." They are watching the happenings and not participating. Exactly how can that be a problem? Seems to me that most of the moderating issues are caused by those that are signed in and participating,
not those that keep their mouths shut.
Some people lurk because they just have nothing current to say. Is that wrong in your mind? There are lots of Fleetwood Mac fans that read the board with no need to comment. It's always been like that here. If you look at The Ledge front page there were 300 + people reading the night a show began. Did that hurt anyone? How would that affect you? There are people that financially support this board that "lurk." Lurking need not be a sinister, evil practive. Actually, it's those that probably display undo familiarity that you probably should be careful with--those who say inappropriate things to you, ask for personal information, (phone numbers, your school, address, etc) etc--
not those that keep their mouths shut and merely read The Ledge and other areas of The Penguin. Shall we blindfold people from reading a Fleetwood Mac message board because one 15 year old was told by her parents (for reasons that are not clear) that she can't post here?
btw, 15 year olds are rather hard to "control." There's libraries, and any other number of places were she might also
lurk. Either her parents trust her, or they don't. And she is either trustworthy or she's not to her parents demands. In the end, she will be 18 soon, and have to make all her own decisions about life. Meanwhile, shall The Ledge be changed for her?
In terms of safety, is it necessary for minors to post on a board where they are sitting at a show? And post their photos?
Anyone could just PM/email those people that you really know and trust. This is the age of the internet. "Kids" are educated quite young in school about "the evil internet," and there has been plenty of education available about it on TV, magazines, and on the internet itself.
A Fleetwood Mac website hardly seems the place for pediphiles to hang out anyhow.
In the end, none of this is really up to us. The board is privately owned. It's not a democracy. The moderators have been doing a tireless job on this website for a number of years now. Isn't that enough policing?