Oh brother! I posted on their site about re-posting without quoting their source and my post was deleted!!:floorlaugh::floorlaugh:
I did notice when I read their rules for the forum that they are SUPPOSED to provide a source for their information, but I guess hearsay works just as well for them, which is unfortunate. How do you spell plagerism?
Hi all --
I am new to the websleuths forum (as a member, only; I have been one of your reading "guests" -- only because I had trouble registering with my email address) but I am a member of the unsolved canada community, under the moniker "soccermom". I have found both groups to be incredibly valuable. I will also out myself to say that I wanted to send a message to LilyMacBloom that is very, very important to me, and that is precisely the reason I formally joined your group rather than continuing to read your posts as a visitor. So i think, unwittingly, I am the spark for some of this discussion.
I'd just like to say, as a new member here, I was careful to explain to websleuths admin that I am a poster on the other site (which formally seems to violate membership rules) as well as my intention to join in order to send a member a PM.
I have on a few small occasions referenced the interesting work you do here on WS -- but I have never stolen info or otherwise acted in any way that I believe could be construed as inappropriate. My question to LilyMacBloom came out of a genuine and (to me) fairly urgent query. If you look at my public posts, I did ask my UC community on Audrey's thread if anyone knew how to become a member here because I had several failed attempts in trying to message the member. Out of respect for LilyMacBloom I did not name the poster or the info; my intention was always to keep this particular info confidential.
I cannot speak for other posters on this or the UC site. But again i think it was my message that has in part sparked this resentment, and I'm sorry for this. My intention was only ever to be frank but engaged, and to try to work together on something I genuinely am concerned about. The reason we are are on these sites is to engage not only in collective mourning but to attempt to work together as a community to find resolution for the missing and the murdered.
LilyMacBloom, I sent you a second message privately before I read this thread. So i will understand that your response remains the same. I understand, but I'm not sorry I tried. I think that you all are working passionately together and I hope that there will be resolution and justice for Audrey (and others) whether that comes from LE or from amateur sleuthing....
I will continue to be a member of both communities; I have cleared that with the WS admin. And I will continue to enage with responsibility and integrity, as I know all of you do as well.
Finally, I'm not suggesting any of you mayn't have good reason for concern for how your posts get taken up or (mis)appropriated. Or vice versa. Only that I also see how the two sites are working toward genuinely common aims and that there is excellent work being done at both. And I would like to very, very gently encourage you to see that wanting to communicate about what may be crucial info may not be intended as a "territory" or turf violation but a genuine exchange.
apologies for my very long first post.