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....
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....