Someone Stop Claude
Tue, 8 Feb 2005, 07:42 pmWalter Plinge41 posts in thread
Someone Stop Claude
Tue, 8 Feb 2005, 07:42 pmI reckon this has gone far enough. If someone doesn't put a stop to this Claude McNamara then i will notify the authorities. It seems that every time a young girl asks for work, he's there. As a perfect example: there is a post from a young girl 13 wanting a job in acting/modeling. The only person to reply is none other than Claude and he states and i quote "I need someone your age to model a product for me.
If you are interested E-mail me with enquiries and a photo at Claude_McNamara@hotmail.com
I hope to meet you soon and make your drem come tru!
Claude"
Now this coming from the guy who was just looking for young 13-17 year old girls to act in his motion picture with the chance of being noticed by hollywood. Get help Claude and get off this site.
If you are interested E-mail me with enquiries and a photo at Claude_McNamara@hotmail.com
I hope to meet you soon and make your drem come tru!
Claude"
Now this coming from the guy who was just looking for young 13-17 year old girls to act in his motion picture with the chance of being noticed by hollywood. Get help Claude and get off this site.
That Someone is You!
Thu, 10 Feb 2005, 08:53 pmHi Crispian
Crispian wrote:
> Grant wrote:
> >Have you personally called the police and reported your concerns?
> >No?
> >How's your conscience?
>
> Ahhh! But I'm not an administrator of this website. :) I'd
> definitely take action if I was.
I fail to see the difference.
If you were administrator, whatever that means, you'd call the police, because you're not, you won't?
Hey! Someone just threw a brick through my neighbour's window and is loading their furniture into a van!
I won't call the police, it's not my house.
%)
> I completely agree with you on the redirection and education
> and thats why I believe this website needs an overhaul with
> its design.
Bring it on!
:-)
You may have noticed I've had a content management system (CMS) with suggested site framework in place for a couple of years now that's not progressed anywhere.
http://web.theatre.asn.au/
I've suggested to the ITA and a few other people that we probably need to get a stakeholder/steering group together in order to guide development to the next level. I've just not had the energy on top of everything else to tackle this alone but it won't take much to get me going.
Drop me a line or give me a call on 0401 216 962 and let's catch up and go over the options.
(Yes, i do hand out my phone number online. Anyone can look it up in the whitepages, I'd sooner save people the effort.)
> There are forums around on the Internet where posters must
> register themselves first, legitimise it by activating an
> account through their email account (some even restrict it
> that you can't use hotmail accounts to activate an account)
> and at the same time they must read the terms and conditions
> on participating on the website.
Sorry, I believe you're barking up entirely the wrong tree with the call for self registration.
As I indicated earlier, a quick check of the pests posting on this site revealed that the majority of them _are_ registered.
Disclaimers, terms and conditions of use are of practically no value in limiting liability and certainly won't do anything to _prevent_ abuse - which seems to be one of your key objectives.
Do you think that people predisposed to abuse the services on this site are going to pause for a moment because we ask them to tick a box saying they've read that they're not allowed to be naughty?
There are certainly features for which we may want to require registration or some kind of login - we already have this with company and event listings and with registered user names. The CMS mentioned above would extend this into whole new areas with new administrator, editor, user manager, designer/developer roles.
But requiring registration for posts is simply putting an impediment in the way of people who are making useful contributions.
If we're to continue encouraging microinvestment in the tremendous social capital that has been acquired over the last few years, we need to keep barriers to participation as low as possible and provide a full range of graded opportunties for participation from entirely anonymous to those restricted to known individuals.
> Some forums also have the facility of putting 'sticky' posts
> at the top of each forum room where readers can access useful
> FAQs rather than have to search through each thread.
And on the company, audition, production, poll, news.... pages?
There are much better ways of going about this that needn't be limited by the feature set of any particular bulletin board package.
> By the way, if you google "Auditions theatre australia" - you
> miss the re-direction to the info targeting young people.
> Also, "auditions film australia" misses the young peoples info.
Er... precisely.
That will be because, as I said, we're currently only targetting searches with "teen" or "year" (as in "ten year old" or "14 year old") in them.
:-)
Maybe you'd prefer we inflicted my BLINK tags on everyone arriving from Google?
I feel bad enough about the poor people searching for Alan Seymour's The One Day Of The Year
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=One+Day+Of+The+year+site%3Atheatre.asn.au&btnG=Search
:-\
> I don't mean to sound self-righteous about this whole thing
> but child abuse hits a raw nerve with me.
Not enough of a nerve if you're only standing on the sidelines telling others what they should be doing about it.
Make that call. Will it be the police or me?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
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Crispian wrote:
> Grant wrote:
> >Have you personally called the police and reported your concerns?
> >No?
> >How's your conscience?
>
> Ahhh! But I'm not an administrator of this website. :) I'd
> definitely take action if I was.
I fail to see the difference.
If you were administrator, whatever that means, you'd call the police, because you're not, you won't?
Hey! Someone just threw a brick through my neighbour's window and is loading their furniture into a van!
I won't call the police, it's not my house.
%)
> I completely agree with you on the redirection and education
> and thats why I believe this website needs an overhaul with
> its design.
Bring it on!
:-)
You may have noticed I've had a content management system (CMS) with suggested site framework in place for a couple of years now that's not progressed anywhere.
http://web.theatre.asn.au/
I've suggested to the ITA and a few other people that we probably need to get a stakeholder/steering group together in order to guide development to the next level. I've just not had the energy on top of everything else to tackle this alone but it won't take much to get me going.
Drop me a line or give me a call on 0401 216 962 and let's catch up and go over the options.
(Yes, i do hand out my phone number online. Anyone can look it up in the whitepages, I'd sooner save people the effort.)
> There are forums around on the Internet where posters must
> register themselves first, legitimise it by activating an
> account through their email account (some even restrict it
> that you can't use hotmail accounts to activate an account)
> and at the same time they must read the terms and conditions
> on participating on the website.
Sorry, I believe you're barking up entirely the wrong tree with the call for self registration.
As I indicated earlier, a quick check of the pests posting on this site revealed that the majority of them _are_ registered.
Disclaimers, terms and conditions of use are of practically no value in limiting liability and certainly won't do anything to _prevent_ abuse - which seems to be one of your key objectives.
Do you think that people predisposed to abuse the services on this site are going to pause for a moment because we ask them to tick a box saying they've read that they're not allowed to be naughty?
There are certainly features for which we may want to require registration or some kind of login - we already have this with company and event listings and with registered user names. The CMS mentioned above would extend this into whole new areas with new administrator, editor, user manager, designer/developer roles.
But requiring registration for posts is simply putting an impediment in the way of people who are making useful contributions.
If we're to continue encouraging microinvestment in the tremendous social capital that has been acquired over the last few years, we need to keep barriers to participation as low as possible and provide a full range of graded opportunties for participation from entirely anonymous to those restricted to known individuals.
> Some forums also have the facility of putting 'sticky' posts
> at the top of each forum room where readers can access useful
> FAQs rather than have to search through each thread.
And on the company, audition, production, poll, news.... pages?
There are much better ways of going about this that needn't be limited by the feature set of any particular bulletin board package.
> By the way, if you google "Auditions theatre australia" - you
> miss the re-direction to the info targeting young people.
> Also, "auditions film australia" misses the young peoples info.
Er... precisely.
That will be because, as I said, we're currently only targetting searches with "teen" or "year" (as in "ten year old" or "14 year old") in them.
:-)
Maybe you'd prefer we inflicted my BLINK tags on everyone arriving from Google?
I feel bad enough about the poor people searching for Alan Seymour's The One Day Of The Year
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=One+Day+Of+The+year+site%3Atheatre.asn.au&btnG=Search
:-\
> I don't mean to sound self-righteous about this whole thing
> but child abuse hits a raw nerve with me.
Not enough of a nerve if you're only standing on the sidelines telling others what they should be doing about it.
Make that call. Will it be the police or me?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
[%sig%]
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