In 1998 for English class, we were tasked with doing a project on the history of television. Naturally my first thought was look on the internet, then we'll load up Encarta (the Wikipedia of the time before Wikipedia). So, as there was no really great search engines yet it meant a lot of surfing to find relevant material. 'Lets try tv.com' I said, that seemed like an obvious answer. It wasn't. Not at all. It was a hardcore porn site and given that we were on school computers we crossed the window as fast as teenage boys looking at porn can close a window. It wasn't even 2 minutes later that the IT person was behind us asking why we were looking at porn.

I'm not sure how accurate my memory is of the events, but I am sure that it was tv.com that we went to. Similar to how whitehouse.com used to host porn. I can't remember what my point was, I'm sorry.

Not sure if you saw it but /u/gladsdotter replied with this.

The front page is filtered so that it doesn't show posts with no upvotes, thus sparing you from spam, unflagged pron, etc. (at the moment, snaps require three upvotes to be shown on the front page) The best way to see the brand-new stuff as it's posted is to use your Home feed. If you follow the tribes with the most posts--that's the ordering on this page--or at least the ones that most interest you, you'll probably have more activity on your feed that you can keep up with. Since most snaps in the niche tribes are also posted in one of the large tribes, visiting the snaps that interest you is a good way to locate other tribes you might not have known about. And the best way to get new content onto the front page is to upvote good snaps you see on your home page. Hope this helps!

I know someone who will internet stalk everyone, myself included. It's creepy as fuck, I've mentioned it being creepy but he doesn't understand he thinks it normal. The thing with this is that if he hadn't told me I wouldn't have known, therefore it's hard to gauge just how many people how similar behaviours. They don't value privacy or personal space and believe that if it's posted on the internet it's fair game. Which in some cases is true, just not to do with people's personal lives. Therefore I believe it should be an option for the individual for what happens with their comment history as some people are very wary of their privacy and others don't care so much.

Some options I think may be viable are: 1. Allowing only trusted users access to comment history more than X days old. This still doesn't help that much as you can never be sure of a persons intentions, however it's better than allowing everyone access. IMO. 2. After X days the users comments are thrown into a pool from the relevant tribe(s). This would mean that it would still give a rough idea of what the persons ideals and values are without revealing too much easily identifying information about the individual user, since it would be bundled with other users. 3. Straight up remove the ability to catalogue history. I have no reasoning I just wanted to get to 3.

Of course this is all under the assumption that it isn't up to the user themselves to be careful with what they put on the internet.

Sorry, I lost my train of thought and it turned to mess....