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Community rules and personal information

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Community rule 3 states "do not include personal information or ask others for personal information in messages. This can include names, addresses, emails or phone numbers"

I think this needs clarification. Sometimes towns and cities are deleted by the Moderators.

I can understand that giving your actual address down to a locality whereby you could be identified is inadvisable. But sometimes it is necessary to name your county or town to explain things.

For example someone lives in a town and wants to know what services are available. Editing out the town makes a mockery of the request.

Or someone recently who had moved from a named town to a very small village and their post was about the difficulties of one compared to the other. The village might be too specific an address, but naming the town where they used to live????  The text is now punctuated by having every geographical reference edited out - so the posting makes no sense.

If it is really necessary to exclude names of towns, counties etc SAY SO PLEASE in Rule 3, but don't please cite the rules as a reason for exclusions no-one could reasonably anticipate.

Similarly the advice recently meted out to someone about profile names is not clearly stated in the rules.

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  • The trouble is, as I've lately been informed on the Community Development thread: they have to interpret "nuances" of the rules.

    Except I think public telling off should be confined to clear breaches of the rules, not "nuances". And we are getting way too many obscure interpretations and peregrinations of the "rules" - making it quite difficult to write anything on here,

    The reason I created this thread was because a new member of the forum had their first post peppered with "blankings out" and a public reprimand even over their profile name. And when they asked how to change their profile name the poster was ignored.

    This hardly encourages people to post on here. Nor does the constant problem of the system double posting, but new members are being put off by over regulation.

    If the Moderators spend time discussing interpretation of the rules for individual postings they can surely distinguish between innocuous naming of a town, and naming a town where there is a criticism of health services that then might be linked.

    As a subscriber to NAS I'm seriously considering writing to the Director about what is going on.

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  • The trouble is, as I've lately been informed on the Community Development thread: they have to interpret "nuances" of the rules.

    Except I think public telling off should be confined to clear breaches of the rules, not "nuances". And we are getting way too many obscure interpretations and peregrinations of the "rules" - making it quite difficult to write anything on here,

    The reason I created this thread was because a new member of the forum had their first post peppered with "blankings out" and a public reprimand even over their profile name. And when they asked how to change their profile name the poster was ignored.

    This hardly encourages people to post on here. Nor does the constant problem of the system double posting, but new members are being put off by over regulation.

    If the Moderators spend time discussing interpretation of the rules for individual postings they can surely distinguish between innocuous naming of a town, and naming a town where there is a criticism of health services that then might be linked.

    As a subscriber to NAS I'm seriously considering writing to the Director about what is going on.

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