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Marcus101 - This is THE BEST comment/rebuttal I have read in regards to a comment posted by a admin. on this subject! I couldn't have worded this better or found the exact thought to which you wrote it. I highly doubt you will get an answer, but after reading this, it makes me feel strongly that our best interests aren't in mind and it would be MANIPULATING to think EP would cater to their respective members..Excellent bro! BRAVO!

Armen: Due respect, man, please regarding this issue, which is now becoming beyond ludicrous..



"it would be MANIPULATIVE to get rid of it..."



you're kidding me, right?



How MANIPULATIVE is it to try and turn the context of this discussion around so that the poster of a legitimate story is now on the DEFENSIVE for expressing a perfectly VALID point that MANY EP users support?



We ALL know that the MORE ways that exist for people to open up the tuna-fish tin of what little privacy and security we have here on EP, will, by its very DEFINITION, make things LESS SECURE!



That, BTW, INCLUDES the Facebook LIKE button. You have NOT provided a mechanism, as far as I can tell, allowing the AUTHOR of any content to ALLOW any redirects or links to Facebook, which would be a MUCH more effective solution.



We ALL know that if such a solution was implemented here, EVERYONE would REFUSE to allow Facebook access to their content, which makes the point of this story even MORE relevant, and your argument less appropriate.



And please, don't insult our intelligence by saying that we can TRUST our Facebook or EP friends to use this mechanism properly. This has NOTHING to do with that - it's a can opener, and it's a very badly implemented one.



You have NO wiggle room here. Stop fighting us and turn this damned EP-Facebook vehicle around before many of us leave here on EN MASSE.



We're beyond ASKING here, Armen. We are TELLING you what to do. You know perfectly well that we are right in asking you to do it.



It is your choice now, whether you listen to us or ignore us....



-marcus

Kitten is right. I have always had everything set to 'discreet' you can google Snowbunny1002 and everything comes up !

I really don't think anyone wants them

Reece, bear with me-- that would actually mislead people, and be an empty action. It takes two seconds for someone to copy and paste a URL into Twitter, into email, share it with one button using a browser plug-in, and so on. It doesn't matter if there's a button or not. Sharing existed long before FB, and we've always had it (remember the 'addthis' buttons?). Content posted online can be shared, and to let people think otherwise is just pushing the core issue under the rug and potentially tricking people into a false sense of security.



The core issue is -- never post content that can identify you (if you don't want someone 'finding' you). This has been our position since day one. It's in our guidelines, our FAQs, and we're always happy to help people who don't know what to avoid (phone numbers, common usernames, emails, chat names, etc.).



Why have the button anyways? Wouldn't it solve a lot of headaches to get rid of it? Maybe, but that would be a manipulative move on our part to just "get rid" of it. Not only for the reasons above. But remember that most of the people you know on this site found EP because someone told them about it, someone found a story through a search, and so on. Every person that finds EP is another potential experience-soulmate, with their own stories and experiences and personality, and that's a very good thing.

I agree mother dear.



Totally

It would make us happy. Isn't that we came here in the first place?

I hope they listen.... this just makes me sick.

I know the feeling Kiddo. Its gonna save the Admin. ALOT of trouble just removing it I think

I don't want my friends to randomly click a button and then see a story about me cutting because someone else liked the story. I'm always afraid of being found out and this damned button isn't helping me.