[wp-forums] Giving WordPress.org permission to publish information publicly

[Mark Ratledge]

No time limit on editing is a possibility, but that could open up a whole new can of worms with spam, trolls and other assorted battles through back years of posts.  -- mark


On Mar 8, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Drew wrote:

> This might be the unpopular opinion, but perhaps we should just not not
> have a time limit on editing your own posts. Just sayin'
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com>wrote:
> 
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>> On Mar 8, 2014, at 10:59 AM, andrew nevins wrote:
>> 
>>> Or is the act of that the person sharing information on the public
>> WordPress.org forum the equivalent of granting WordPress.org permission to
>> post that information publicly?
>> 
>> The legal beagles would have to parse that. But basically, the OP is
>> inflating the idea that their post is being published, rather than
>> admitting that their original responsibility is to be aware of what they
>> are are posting will be public. I would think that WP.orgs privacy policy
>> is not the same as the forums' TOS on posting.