Update on "Forum Change"

Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/2/2004, 8:01 AM

Apologies for the double-post. The original seems to have deteriorated a tad from the subject. So this is submitted for those interested parties.

I received the following from our Webmaster:

"I had to remove it per a Sony policy regarding the handling on users personal information. We're working on creating a new 'my account' area of the website, and once that's up, there's a possibility we'll give users the option to display their personal profile on a forum page. If all goes well, the user profile page will provide even more info than it used to."

Jay

Comments

Chanimal wrote on 8/2/2004, 8:08 AM

Policies like this are usually setup by the legal counselors to mitigate risk. One time, I had a president that didn't want competitor's to have access to our users.

However, there can always be a brief legal disclaimer along with a check mark that says, "allow my user profile information to be publicably viewable."

Regarding the access to users, let a competitor try to pull away a Vegas user--I personally send competitive promotions (i.e. Pinnacle) directly to Sony for their business intelligence and to help them become even more competitive (although their marketing depatment appears to be a black hole without a response).

I hope they follow through quickly and set this up--our ability to collaborate and network off line helps increase the strength and value of this community.