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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]I have a strong dislike of such posts. I will tolerate them in the Nanny Forums, but nobody ever wants to post them there. I am not able to move posts from this forum to the Nanny Forum, so if such posts are posted here, I will normally delete them.
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New poster here – why? I'm sure there are a lot of posts you dislike. They aren't posted to be cruel. I know it's your right, but it seems a little strange.[/quote]

I've been dealing with "I saw your nanny" posts for years. At one time, we even had a specific forum for them. Rather than trying to explain all the reasons that I dislike them, I'll just say that my experience with such threads has generally not been positive and has conditioned me to have fairly strong feelings against them. But, as I said, I will tolerate them in the Nanny Forums section. In the main forums section, I have done all that I can to make posters aware that nanny-related posts are not appropriate. "I saw your nanny posts" don't get an exception.
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It just would never get the intended audience - which is parents who might see info that would help their child be safer. I can see that you don't want the forum to become all about that, but I can't imagine there are THAT many posts. I'd feel guilty deleting info that could help a child who may not be in a safe situation - youve created a popular forum, and a degree of responsibility comes with that, IMO.[/quote]

This is the sort of response that makes me reluctant to even discuss this topic. Every single time this topic comes up, someone tries to guilt trip me. It's the old, "will nobody think of the children?" plea. First of all, in every case that I can remember, the amount of danger a child was facing was debatable. Moreover, if a child was truly endangered, a caring observer should be willing to do more than post an anonymous message on DCUM. As I mentioned above, this is not a topic that just came up today. I've been dealing with this for years. We've had several discussions right here in website feedback about the topic. The way we address this type of post is not rash or uncaring. It is a result of lots of experience.
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Your site, your choice. I'd disagree that it's not uncaring.[/quote]

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