OTR Tip/Rambling Idiot of the Day:

By Steph (OTR Editor)
Tags: rant, rambling idiot, tips, crazy people on the internet

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Created: 06/06/2008
07:53 AM

Email: [redacted]@thisisnrighttoask.org
Name: Skeptic
Message: who are you "college on the record" company??? who are you? who runs you? why isn't there an "about us" link that tells us who owns you, who runs you, what your goals are, what your point of view is, what you hope to accomplish with this site, etc., etc. This is a basic requirement of anyone who wants to run something on the web ethically. What I see from you is that you're not identifying who you are to vunerable young college students and telling them anything about yourself and why you host this site. Instead I see a website operating kind of anomynously with unknown goals and yets trying to attract teenagers and young adults in college to spill their beans here like other sites offer and which is so popular now. And yet other sites like google's blogger at least tells you to whom you're giving your thoughts to for safekeeping and how they will be used. You, "college on the record" don't make yourself, the owner, easily findable. Why is that? And why are you going after youngsters? I suspect you have a hidden agenda and are using these poor children, and the idea of a blog, for something else. Something that isn't easily seen or even understood. Something that has nothing to do with the realm of advertising or creating a service. I think you're doing stuff that these children, if they knew what was really happening when they were using your systems and typing and verifying security codes and making their computers known to you, I think you are doing something you shouldn't be doing, or at least shouldn't be doing without telling potential users first and gaining their explicit consent AFTER you have explicitly told them what you're doing and after you'd told them without holding anything back from them before they agree to sign up with you. 

Editor's response:
In case there’s any confusion: Crazy people are alive and well on the internet.
And God Bless them.
Everyone.