Posted by fayeroe on February 12, 2009, at 10:46:28
In reply to Re: To Administrators: Concerns; please address » Garnet71, posted by Glydin 3.9 on February 12, 2009, at 9:54:17
> > Other members have asked me if I was a researcher, part of a study. Upon further investigation, I found out the conversations on this board are part of a research project.
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> ~~~ When I arrived here about 7 years ago, the boards were part of research and that point was made very clear. At some point that changed and then changed again. Regardless of whether Dr. Bob lets the participants know of what he's up to, all the boards have in their explanation beginnings:
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> "What you say may conceivably be used against you."
> "Submitting a message gives me permission to use it as I wish."
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> Those are pretty powerful statements of policy, IMO. It took me a while to realize how powerful those statements could be. (Sigh)Wow! It has been that long! (those memories...:-) )
Could I just second what you said about rules changing?
I hope that no one believes that what they say here is "sacred". You can "post" but you cannot "hide".....
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