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There's something really wrong here. Be very careful of your use of their forums, the owners of these sites really do not seem like nice people.
Originally posted by Electro38
No I didn't care about deleting my posts, but I was just curious about how you could cancel your membership if you wanted to and was surprised by the unprofessional response I received, in addition to discovering that they own the rights to whatever you write here, and can use whatever you write here as they wish.
That is some really weird stuff.
Does anyone else find the tracking cookies and invasive full page pop up ads to be kind of disrespectful to the members of ATS/BTS?
I was waiting for the suck-ups to come running to their defense. Do you even know who you're defending? Not very nice people and they're definitely not on your side.
Originally posted by Stillalive
ur overreacting my friend,for the cookies i dont know but the invasive ads SHULD BE REMOVED! what are we? 1942? pop ups?
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
-1- There's nothing inherently wrong with cookies.
-2- We've never claimed "ownership" of the content posted by members.
-3- As explained, we don't delete posts because it disrupts the conversation.
-4- We don't delete accounts because nothing personal about you is ever asked for, or retained.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
-1- There's nothing inherently wrong with cookies.
-2- We've never claimed "ownership" of the content posted by members.
-3- As explained, we don't delete posts because it disrupts the conversation.
-4- We don't delete accounts because nothing personal about you is ever asked for, or retained.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
-1- There's nothing inherently wrong with cookies.
-2- We've never claimed "ownership" of the content posted by members.
-3- As explained, we don't delete posts because it disrupts the conversation.
-4- We don't delete accounts because nothing personal about you is ever asked for, or retained.
Originally posted by Electro38
Ok, I guess I have misread or misunderstood what that meant.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Originally posted by Electro38
Ok, I guess I have misread or misunderstood what that meant.
You did.
The right to use, or publish, is very different than rights of ownership.
We're up-front and very clear about all aspects of what we do. If that poses a problem for you, then the best advice is to simply stop visiting/posting.
Originally posted by Electro38
Come on now, you are claiming rights to whatever people write here, don't split hairs or dance around the meaning of words.
You don't collect personal info from your members? What about the tracking cookies that collect members web browsing activity?
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
SO forgive me for jumping in here ...
Electro, lest this conversation take place for the umpteenth time, here's a thread where SO has explained this ad nauseum: www.belowtopsecret.com...
[edit on 22 Sep 2009 by schrodingers dog]