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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
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Romerito Deleted
Ok, a little peeved that everything of Romerito has disappeared as a lot of time spent discussing topics and such. I assume he requested such a thing because of his doctorate, but still, I think he owed it to the foro to go through himself and delete only things he felt were important to remove. Now there are some gaping holes related to important subjects, especially the rubato tempo vs out compas thread.
I don't think entire threads. Only his own posts. I think there is a function in the foro software, where you can delete all posts by someone. Normally when the account is canceled, you only see "guest", but the comments all remain. Now i think here Simon used the other function where you can delete all posts of a canceled account.
I don't think its ok, but if someones carreer or life should be affected, then i would accept that.
So if I am understanding this correctly, we have a user that has used this forum as a resource while writing a doctoral thesis. In the process he has engaged in discussion with various members, no doubt learning a lot in the process and developing ideas for his thesis. Then he decides that his own contributions to the discussions are his and his alone and decides to withdraw them from the forum disallowing anyone else from accessing them.
I don't know. Maybe. I am sure Simon will tell us. Normally this is not allowed in Forums, because it destroys whole threads. I saw this in a political Forum where someone told us that he would get problems in Iran if his post shouldn't be deleted. Ok that was understandable. His 4000 posts were deleted together with his account and everyone was ok with it.
So if I am understanding this correctly, we have a user that has used this forum as a resource while writing a doctoral thesis. In the process he has engaged in discussion with various members, no doubt learning a lot in the process and developing ideas for his thesis. Then he decides that his own contributions to the discussions are his and his alone and decides to withdraw them from the forum disallowing anyone else from accessing them.
Has his account actually been cancelled? Or is it still in effect, and he plans to be more judicious and careful in future posts? That his deleted posts use the handle "guest" suggest it has been cancelled. But if his account is still active, perhaps Romerito himself can offer an explanation for the deletion of his previous posts.
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I don't think its ok, but if someones carreer or life should be affected, then i would accept that.
With all the Internet crap going on in Social Network, new businesses flourish. Their missions are to clean up or to reset a virtual reputation. Don't know exactly the name of these pro cleaners.
Anyway IMO his behaviour reflects how high was the esteem he gave to this place! And how reliable were his statements
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I don't think its ok, but if someones carreer or life should be affected, then i would accept that.
With all the Internet crap going on in Social Network, new businesses flourish. Their missions are to clean up or to reset a virtual reputation. Don't know exactly the name of these pro cleaners.
Anyway IMO his behaviour reflects how high was the esteem he gave to this place! And how reliable were his statements
It would be interesting to see a copy of his thesis when it comes out. Perhaps it will be a case of deja-vu ...
His account and posts were deleted at his request and after some offline discussion. He was offered the opportunity to keep the posts and change the attribution to another name, but he declined. We all retain ownership of our posts here and I cannot claim any right to keep them if requested to remove them by the author. This does not apply to deleting entire threads, without a better reason - usually legal.
Sorry that this is less than ideal for the flow of the affected threads.
It would be interesting to see a copy of his thesis when it comes out. Perhaps it will be a case of deja-vu ...
There's an online database of doctoral dissertations and M.A. theses. If he submits his dissertation there, it should show-up within a year of submission. I'm pretty sure the database is subscription-only (normally subscribed to by research university libraries).
His account and posts were deleted at his request and after some offline discussion.
Did he also expressly asked you to lock threads he started?
Hopefully he didn't start the swapshop falseta topic, otherwise it will be locked now!
wow, you are right. The threads are all locked.
Who is he? Someone special with special priviliges? What about the other people who posted in those threads or people in future who will search the foro and might want to add a comment or question?
Not good.
edit: ok, seams like only threads STARTED by Romerito were locked, because threads like this are still open
I didn't know that what you post on the net belongs to you. I thought once you put it out there, it's out there. romerito is clearly a guy who takes his involvement with flamenco seriously, but if he was concerned that someone would make commercial use of his posts, why post in the first place? Like one of us is going to get rich ripping off the info in his posts? I don't get it? I thought the whole idea of the forum was to share info and knowledge. Can someone explain what he had to lose by his posts remaining on the forum?
I still dont get it. So he left because he thought someone could trace him back to here and claim his thesis is "copied" or not his own work? Or did he get upset about the belittleling discussions about "institutionalized" (as he called it) flamenco?
On a side note: I have read somewhere that for example on facebook, once you post it there, you allow facebook to copy and use it for advertising purposes. Maybe it was a different site, not facebook, but ive certainly read that in some cases the things you put on the net become property of the site owner/ host, even without your explicitly stated agreement to that.
Mark2, I also take my involvement with flamenco serious, especially my professional one and I´ve written many things on this forum that other members have used commercially. I´ve also written a lot of things that have been directly bad for my own commercial involvement on the foro. But one thing is to take yourself serious and another thing is to be overserious with yourself and in my personal case, I always try to remember that my start on this foro was not based on being commercial, so I let people use whatever they want and will continue to write unpopular things. Fortunately some members with some kind of commercial relationship to the foro, have the same idea and continue to be the ones they are and not suddenly someone else because they have something to sell or to loose. That said, there are also some being nothing much but commercial on the foro. And everyday you se that more and more.
I think this is a bad decision to allow him to delete his post(s). But ...
My personal opinion, anything you post on the internet in a forum is public domain. I don't think you necessarily have the "right" to delete it. However the site admin can always decide to accomodate an individual's request to delete their posts ... I don't think they can be forced to delete the posts. However a court might not see it that way, and likely running a site as a hobby, you might not want to battle a lawsuit ... Or even just hassle with somebody over deleting their stuff.
I think it's different with you Anders because you are a builder and stuff you write could in fact be used by other builders. I could see how that could be an issue. But romerito is a guitarist. I can't imagine how he would lose commercial opportunity by leaving up posts about accompanying singers, etc. Like I'm going to use a chord inversion he posted about going with a certain part of a letra and THAT is going to unlock the door to riches as a guitarist. It has to be some other reason. I hope it's a good one.
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ORIGINAL: Anders Eliasson
Mark2, I also take my involvement with flamenco serious, especially my professional one and I´ve written many things on this forum that other members have used commercially. I´ve also written a lot of things that have been directly bad for my own commercial involvement on the foro. But one thing is to take yourself serious and another thing is to be overserious with yourself and in my personal case, I always try to remember that my start on this foro was not based on being commercial, so I let people use whatever they want and will continue to write unpopular things. Fortunately some members with some kind of commercial relationship to the foro, have the same idea and continue to be the ones they are and not suddenly someone else because they have something to sell or to loose. That said, there are also some being nothing much but commercial on the foro. And everyday you se that more and more.
I think it's different with you Anders because you are a builder and stuff you write could in fact be used by other builders. I could see how that could be an issue. But romerito is a guitarist. I can't imagine how he would lose commercial opportunity by leaving up posts about accompanying singers, etc. Like I'm going to use a chord inversion he posted about going with a certain part of a letra and THAT is going to unlock the door to riches as a guitarist. It has to be some other reason. I hope it's a good one.
He is also writing a thesis so he is kind of an academic as well. I think that may have been the reason for the deletions. I still don't see how having this online might actually be a problem for him. Was he afraid that someone would read his posts and beat him to the punch with regards to the publication? If so, I think he greatly overvalues his contributions. He must hold himself in really high regard if he thinks that someone on the web is going to find his posts, see them as the wealth of knowledge and then include the ideas in their own thesis.
Anyway, I'm speculating here since I don't know the actual reason. All I know is I can't think of a good one.
IIRC you can't quote yourself--or use ideas you formally or informally published elsewhere--in a thesis or doctoral dissertation. He could actually be accused of plagiarism if he did.
His recent posts were excellent--I'll miss having them as a reference. I'd like to read his dissertation someday. Hopefully he'll share it with us.
Ah-ha, so by deleting these posts he's intentionally deceiving them ... Thus making the case for plagiarism all the more obvious!!! Clearly this was no accident, there was intent!
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IIRC you can't quote yourself--or use ideas you formally or informally published elsewhere--in a thesis or doctoral dissertation. He could actually be accused of plagiarism if he did.
His recent posts were excellent--I'll miss having them as a reference. I'd like to read his dissertation someday. Hopefully he'll share it with us.
If it is forbidden to quote yourself - which im pretty sure it is not the case - then he is all right to break such a childish rule. Plagiarism is quoting ideas that are not yours, without indicating that they are not yours. So that doesnt fit in any case.
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