cloak and dagger: you gotta be kidding me if you do not know how many things are not shared with the general public in CS under the guise of Safety. there is a whole confidentiality agreement which i disagree with thoroughly when it hampers effective dissemination of relevant information which can be used to arm members against possible dangers. i have no clue what the legal standpoint on this could be, but i can quite assume that it may be serious, if some situation happens in my country for example and CS’s names are splashed all over the front pages. However, I am talking about some reforms of certain systems which should somewhat be able to strengthen security measures and I want them to happen and effectively nullify certain elements who have majorly undermined safety and security issues regarding women in my country. I hope they do, and I know that if they come to know of some of these measures they are going to try and go around it (buck the system), as they have done before. I do not want that, and so I am not shouting from the top of my roof about them. I hope that clarifies my post and ends the need to read too much between lines.

that’s the bottomline.

The worst thing i can imagine is for a trust network to be perverted so that ppl let down their guard because there is supposedly trust (friendships/vouches/refs) .. and in fact it is UNtrustworthy people on there who have formed their own subnets or otherwise gamed the system. That’s the reason for appropriate safeguards, or reasonable guidelines, and as we know from computing, hiding everything is not the best way to attain security.

As an aside, i can’t tell that anything has been deleted – if threads have been, please post them! Let’s not get caught up in meaningless tangles.. what we want are trust networks that live up to their potential.

Firstly, it could be just that I’m tired and sleepy but I can’t make much sense out of this post. I find it rambling, poorly written, and just plain crazy-making!

Secondly, maybe I’m missing the profile/personal link somewhere but these comments and the post itself were written anonymously, correct?

Finally, I’ve have followed that “Security issues – it’s dangerous to sweep things under the rug!!” thread quite closely, yet do not recall one single post from Little Green Hobbit. Perhaps there’s some confusion with the “Sim[p]le as FUCK!” thread where she does post twice. Where you find that “rachel deleted a couple of posts” in the group, however, is waaay beyond me.

Personally, I’m glad to see other members of the Safety Team (LGH and Anick-Marie) popping in and taking an interest. Isn’t that what we’re asking for? What all well-intentioned Couchers are asking for? Well, at least I know that’s what I am asking for. For all the screaming I’ve done, I appreciate the fact that at least my voice is being heard. What happens to whatever message that voice is carrying, however, is not within my control.

It looks like the new safety team members are getting up to speed! This is going to be so much fun… NOT.

Posted by Monolita from Cochin, India
I had posted something yesterday and i am sure i saw it posted and now i do not see it…i am very difficult to shut up, so i will post it again…

Blocked Site Error.
http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=429&post=743244 is not available in the Wayback Machine