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Make it known this is a PUBLIC site


BlueCrewGuyInMA
Lowell, MA
2009 Chairman's Circle
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Idea_tail_up posted on May 14, 2009 at 02:35PM to Online Community

I have seen several posts in Ideas and Discussion boards where people have posted their names, addresses, and phone numbers. It apparently isn't clear enough that this website is open to the public, and that everything (except private messages) will be viewable by everybody and anybody. To help protect our customers from identity theft, this website has to make it clearer to new members that it is entirely open to the public, and that they should not post their personal information.


view 2 comments | leave a comment Latest comment: May 15, 2009 at 05:09PM by BlueCrewGuyInMA
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Courtney
Chicago, IL

Moderator (MySears) posted on May 15, 2009 at 02:35PM
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Hi! We actually do mention in our terms of service as well as our privacy policy and the discussion boards guidelines that this is a public site and whatever information you post will be public. I've also posted a topic to reiterate these guideline to our members. http://www.mysears.com/forums/help Thanks for the feedback!


BlueCrewGuyInMA
Lowell, MA

2009 Chairman's Circle posted on May 15, 2009 at 05:09PM
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Maybe, for someone's initial post, when they hit Send, a pop-up could come up and remind them that everyone in the world will see this, are they sure they want everyone in the world to see what they've written? I don't know, something to slap 'em in the face with the facts. You know as well as I that people don't read the TOS, privacy policies, guidelines, or posts before they start posting. They need something to stop them in their tracks the first time they decide to post to make sure they're not doing something stupid. After all, most of the offending posts are their first posts.




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