[Noisebridge-discuss] do you guys want a uservoice account?

[Ian]

thanks for researching it john!

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:39 AM, John Menerick <john.menerick at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to Uservoice's TOS, you give over all your rights and license
> UserVoice to do with as they wish and desire.
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> Think Facebook but one step scarier in terms of privacy and content
> ownership.
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> "..You give the party who owns the Hosted Area in which you post your
> Content (the "Account Holder") a non-exclusive, free, worldwide license for
> the duration of the applicable author's rights, to publish your Content. In
> addition to the right to publish, you also grant the Account Holder under
> said license the following rights, without limitation: (i) the right to
> reproduce; (ii) the right to transfer, which includes the distribution via
> computer and networks; (iii) the right to edit, modify, adapt, arrange,
> improve, correct, translate, in all or in part; (iv) the right to
> update/upgrade by adding or removing; and (v) the right to film, perform or
> post the Content in any media. Except as described in our Privacy Policy,
> neither the Company nor any Account Holder will be required to treat any
> Content as confidential.
> In order to operate and improve the Service, the Company needs the right to
> make certain uses of your Content as well. Therefore, when you post Content
> in any Hosted Area, you also agree to grant the Company an irrevocable,
> perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sublicenseable, non-exclusive
> license to copy, distribute, sell, publicly display, publicly perform and
> make derivative works of your Content on the Service and on services
> affiliated with the Service regardless of the form of media used or of
> whether such services now exist or are developed in the future......"
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> Ian wrote:
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>> i didnt mean to ignore you. i just didnt have an answer to your
>> question and the other points you brought up we already talked about.
>>
>> 1. "I'd disagree, there's a thread right now happening where people
>> are discussing their wants and not wants as far as behavior at the
>> space goes..."
>>
>> the response to that was two-part. a) there is no means to quantify it
>> unless someone goes through and reads the whole thing and tallies up
>> who is for and against it. b) a lot of people dont want to respond
>> just to say +1 or -1.
>>
>> 2. "Is there a way a user can get a copy of all data related to an
>> account and or "group" for use elsewhere? Who owns the rights of user
>> submitted content on the site?"
>>
>> as was stated earlier in this thread. you can export your data
>> yourself if you have a certain paid plan. if you do not have a paid
>> plan with that feature, can you still ask for your data? i would
>> imagine so, but i have not come across this and have not asked anyone.
>> in addition, i do not know who legally owns the rights of the user
>> submitted content.
>>
>> i was going to respond after i found out the answer to the last two
>> questions.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
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>>> Thanks for ignoring my questions and concerns.
>>>
>>> Rubin Abdi wrote, On 20091028 175517:
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>>>> Ian wrote, On 20091028 174439:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> i would say an application designed to do this is better than a
>>>>> mailing list because important information is quantified. if i start a
>>>>> "lets have a weekly pinata" thread, after n email messages, its hard
>>>>> to see who is for and against the idea. also, people dont normally
>>>>> respond to threads just to say they want it or dont want it. the
>>>>> barrier of participation is much higher. you are cutting a lot of
>>>>> people out.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd disagree, there's a thread right now happening where people are
>>>> discussing their wants and not wants as far as behavior at the space
>>>> goes.
>>>>
>>>> I do not understand how we "are cutting people out"? You read the list,
>>>> you see something you want to promote, discuss, or bad mouth, you do it.
>>>> You are not required to register on the list to post something to it,
>>>> not are you required to register to read it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> at the end of the day, its just a voting site to see what people want.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way a user can get a copy of all data related to an account
>>>> and or "group" for use elsewhere? Who owns the rights of user submitted
>>>> content on the site?
>>>>
>>>> You're welcome to do as you please as all members are part of the
>>>> governing force here. I'm just letting you know that your logic hasn't
>>>> convinced me that using a 3rd party service to reinvent what we're
>>>> already doing on our very open ended mailing list is a good idea.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rubin Abdi
>>> rubin at starset.net
>>>
>>>
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