Can someone talk to Jo about making the forum more private

[LatteLover]

After more thought, I am just not going to be comfortable posting in a forum that is googleable. I would personally prefer that it be private, but it needs to be at least somewhat restricted. I would hate for anyone to get into trouble for posting here.

[BunnyMcFluff]

I'll again register my desire not to have this forum private.

[fluff]

Why would you think that someone could get into trouble for posting about their school / instructors or whaterver?

[Sarahd]

because people have had their grades compromised by posting info online...I have had issues and it took involving deans to fix the issue.

[LatteLover]

You know, I have had all sorts of interesting stuff happen to me posting at amity. I posted a review for a shoe company and then got a personal email from that company in my email inbox with a link to the post thanking me. I had a woman looking for random ikea curtains find my post here and contact me (which is good, but I was surprised). When I am PERSONALLY googling random things, I am always surprised how much amity comes up in my google searches. I don't personally feel comfortable being very open with the forum googleable. I don't know that it needs to be private, but at least registration. And I posted this because of the other thread on the matter. You can read that if you feel the need for more reasons.

[lordsofthemanor]

Here's another example--if your courses use MyDropBox, it searches the web. If you posted a paper or something to get feedback or editing help, My Drop Box or a similar site could find it and find you paper to be not authentic, and you would be unable to turn in your assignment without rewriting your entire paper.

[LatteLover]

Originally Posted by lordsofthemanor

Here's another example--if your courses use MyDropBox, it searches the web. If you posted a paper or something to get feedback or editing help, My Drop Box or a similar site could find it and find you paper to be not authentic, and you would be unable to turn in your assignment without rewriting your entire paper.

That too.