Spider, think we are all aware of that, the difference here is that people who have started groups but aren't LC employees now have access

 Loving the irony.... sometimes there are accidents!

Although it's been mentioned that you have to purchase membership to be able to set up a channel, the cost wasn't mentioned. It looks as if it costs $9 per month to be able to set up basic forums and $29 per month to add blogs, photos & video clips.

So basically *Channels* are now fora and operate as such...and if you don't want the admin to have access to your details, you don't join...as in other fora you may be a member of?.......Or.....you faff about changing all your details on the offchance that you presume the admin to be untrustworthy?

I wouldn't have put it quite like that Kaytee! Not suggesting anyone is untrustworthy

.......When you join a forum you tick various boxes that protect your privacy Supes....in as much as these things can be protected on the interwub....now surely this must apply to the *Channels* you join as well....therefore I cannot see that a forum admin having my EMail etc is a problem......unless there is an element of distrust about the entire operation or the admin running it......just the way I see it, but I can understand people having doubts as well, especially if they wish to remain anonymous...say for professional reasons.

I would like to take Ted up on his offer, but how do you dialog someone who isn't on your buddies list?....I'm flipping useless at all this stuff

That would be one reason.....Each to their own I guess

Ha Ha Kaytee, you don't think it's a problem, but you'll have the freebie none the less Just click on the gingerbreadman by his name and then click on start dialogue, (you don't need to be his buddy)

Yeah, that's how it is now Kaytee. Problem was that, with the recent changes, it just happened, (by an oversight on LC's part, for which they have apologised,) that the admins of groups that people were already members of were suddenly given personal details.Also 'groups' have never had their own privacy policies, 'cos they hadn't previously been expected to. Loads of people presumably won't mind about that, others weren't so happy.

Hey! I didn't say I was on the moral high ground here......just as I saw it you can take steps to protect yourself.....nothing is safe on the net and that's my starting point

I do think that we should have been forewarned Soops.....but presumably it just happened so all the admins would be aware of our details before we were aware that they had them,   so that must breach the data protection act.....I get that bit.....

But......by the time we found out....any damage that might or might not have been done...had already been done....and so changing details now would be a case of locking the door once the horse had bolted.....

Sorry if I'm being obtuse here, but I don't really understand the difference between joining a channel and joining a forum because they both use the same details... but I do take the point that it shouldn't have been done without notifying us first...so that people who wanted to could change their details

I agree that's the same thing Kaytee, what was different was that people who had 'groups' (of which there are many on LC,) did not previously have any personal details of members, but when LC changed groups and made them channels they suddenly did. Chances are that most people with groups wouldn't have realised/ wouldn't know how or wouldn't have chosen to access the info. but yes, there could be an element of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.... However, for those who don't want their personal details shared in the future, they've now had the opportunity to do something about it, either by leaving the groups and/or changing their registered email.
I'm getting a bit concerned that it could be looking like I'm on some kind of personal mission re this, I'm not, it was just that I seemed to be the only person who'd noticed the problem. I absolutely appreciate and accept that a mistake was made and that it was unintentional

Soops.....I don't think you're on a personal mission...just one trying to explain the ins and outs to people like me....OK me.....who doesn't really understand what is what with regard to data provided on the internet....but I can now see why there was cause for some concern and I thank you for opening my eyes to it.
As a result, I have deleted all the channels that I joined but didn't use, not because I'm worried about the ramifications, but because there wasn't much point in me having them in the first place.
I agree, it was an honest mistake for the admin here to make and easily done....and btw, I'm not taking up the freebie...that was a feeble joke on my part

HAHAHA!  Well I am a cheeky sod too!   Cos it hasn't caused a problem for me (though I do agree with you & with Ted himself that it was a serious oversight) I too have applied for the freebie!

Tis the only way I will ever get the badge!

I was only joking Ditty....I'm not bothered about it because I wouldn't use it anyway

ello Kaytee...

I wasn't joking!     

I only want it for the badge!  

Oooo what will you do with your new VIP status Ditty? ...And I wonder how long the freebie will last, would be a buga if it was to be say for a month and then say you set up a group, (sorry channel,)  and you couldn't continue 'cos it had run out

I too have applied for the badge, but I have asked Ted to say whether the freebie is permanent or just for the first 6 months. Normally it costs $18 every 6 months. Either I or Ted will keep you informed as to his answer. Don't panic - at worst the freebie would just end after 6 months - I can't see that you can be charged because they don't have your credit card details. We may not hear anything until Monday as I don't know if Ted works here over the weekend.

Looks as if Super and I are having the same thoughts re the freebie , though I think it should be OK for at least 6 months else that would be a bit misleading.

lol!

I will swagger about with my chest puffed out...  angling the badge under my fellow fms noses. .. til they notice it!    (I am such a child sometimes).

I prob won't set up any groups/channels.   I actually have a group (now channel) of my own anyway... that I don't use.   James set it up for me in September and handed over all the admin controls to me, it was for my daughter to use to tell us all about life at boarding school (without risking any of her school friends reading it).

But we have never used it...  as she is way way too busy to be bothering with us lot anymore...  and when she is online, facebook is her preferred social arena!

Good luck to you Ditty I wouldn't know what to do with it if I had it 'ello

Nah, I don't want to be a VIP El Loro, I'm happy with being a pleb

Isn't that Ducky's job?* Runs like hell*

I have the urge to make a pleb badge!

I'll wear it with pride

'zactly!!!

But her VIP ran out months ago... so she is a pleb again now.

My turn to lord it up!

Super, I just assumed that you would take the offer up. My reason to take it up is so that I can have the badge and be a Very Important Parrot

Toddles off for bath, hairwash etc. hoping that freebie plebeian badge is here for me when I return

A pleb Duck and a VIP (mad) Cow now then(lol).....I want to be a member of the Plebs club.....I'm happy with that...being a Plebby Kitty

  


DA DAAAA!

OOH! I so want that Ditty

its there to be copied Kaytee... 

but here it is again...  

Happy to share AKT/ I kinda wanted my old avi and that together, but I didn't know how to do it

The Little Cat wil be MOST impressed!

Ditty thank you....but I got in a mess copying it (lol)

the only way I could do it would make your avi very very small....

I will do it for you though... just gotta go pick up the dog first...

I will sort it when I return xxxx

No worries Ditty, I'll just keep this one for a bit for a laugh, then I'll go back to my old one, 'cos I'm kinda used to it

Just to let you know that Ted has replied to me re the VIP membership as follows:

No it is not a temporary membership.
I'll follow up next week once we have given your free VIP membership.

So it looks as if this is a permanent freebie.