quote:<HR>Originally posted by twupny:
I'm not sure whether I agree with your opinion or not, but I'm curious what it is that has brought you to this conclusion?<HR>

A frequent poster in the Club House identified that this site's security regarding personal information is not secure. He showed and others supported that it was likely one of the volunteer moderators that was falsely posting under another user's ID. There was much drama in Club House regarding the integrity of information saved under ou Coolrunning usernames. There was likely more than one volunteer moderator involved in this fiasco.

I posted a general comment in the CH regarding how this site much like youtube is dependant on the free contributions of visitors. It would appear to me that the business side of this dictates that the content, editing and monitoring of the contributors be controlled by company employees. Right now this site depends on the judgement of phantom volunteers to determine what is suitable for this site.

I have no reason to personally dislike any of the moderators on this site.

If you look at Coolrunnings home page the community is one of six major tabs at the top of the page. Selected forum topics are presented in a window on the right. Clearly the forums are a marketing tool to draw eyeballs and generate ad revenue. I think that such an important marketing tool left in the hands unpaid volunteers, judging what is proper content for this site is risky. Beyond that there is the subject of user IDs? and their security. It is easy to conceive that moderators need access usernames, passwords and IP address to identify and ban particularly bad users. However, if as in the recent instance, these access codes are freely shared then the site management has lost control of a significant portion of this site.

This isn?t the antique Chevy truck club of East Hartford Connecticut. This is a for profit corporation. As such the corporation is asking non paid employees to perform the job of content management during their regular job.