SPN Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Forget about that. If posts here are automatically going to end up on fb I'm out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 If you do not want your topic sharing, all you need do is request it is not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Andy said: If you do not want your topic sharing, all you need do is request it is not... how do you do that Andy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Contact me or the moderators or if you see an item has been shared (which will show in the picks section), contact us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 15 minutes ago, Andy said: Contact me or the moderators or if you see an item has been shared (which will show in the picks section), contact us. thanks Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 I can't really see an issue here. If you are posting a topic on the forum then you are putting it in the public domain and inviting critique. It will only be the first post of the topic that is shared and not all the discussion afterwards, after all, we want people to become members of the forum. It is like a taster if you like to get people to sign up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 as mentioned above stan, you dont want it, it wont get done, please don't go just because of a new feature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 On 7/7/2017 at 5:55 PM, robbo said: I can't really see an issue here. If you are posting a topic on the forum then you are putting it in the public domain and inviting critique. It will only be the first post of the topic that is shared and not all the discussion afterwards, after all, we want people to become members of the forum. It is like a taster if you like to get people to sign up. This is a private forum. The content cannot be viewed from outside. When you start allowing automatic interaction with the various social media platforms you relinquish all control of what gets shared with whom and where. I was looking for a piece of information a couple of weeks ago and in the process I found an Australian big-data agglomeration site that had a lot more information about me pulled together from various sources than would be permitted under EU data protection law. This frightened the s*%t out of me. I understand where Andy is coming from, and how he would like to see this work out. But once you start putting Google and facebook apis (application programming interface) into systems you relinquish control of your data. I've been programming computers since the early 1980s, and using the Internet since the early 1990s. Some of the stuff that is being done with big data at the moment in positively frightening. Anyways, maybe I'm being overcautious. I'll restart the thread I was originally posting, and maybe Andy or one of the mods could read up on the General Data Protection Regulation which comes into force next year as it will probably have an impact on boards like this. http://www.eugdpr.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 For more on the scary side of big data have a read of this https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy But now let's get back to carpet farming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.