This is what happens when you can't afford healthcare

archer wrote: To SC....I think maybe there needs to be some additional moderators/administrators to help monitor this site. If we can't trust the posters to follow the TOS, then there should be someone to step in and delete/star/or in someway remove personal information when it appears.....posters should not feel that they are one argument away from having another poster take revenge by posting personal information not intended for the public.

I agree, but I also have very high standards when it comes to moderators. It's very difficult to find members who don't take things personally and can remain fair and objective, are on here on a regular basis that they can help with any consistency, and who want to volunteer that extra time and effort. It's not hard, but it is time-consuming and has to be done to my professional standards. That being said, I would love any offered help and if you are interested, let me know and I'll call you.

My personal opinion on privacy is that if we participate online, then we really aren't - it's frankly a facade. That being said, that is not how we run this site - if you wish to remain "anonymous" you are free to do so and we will protect that desire by removing personally identifying information that others post. If you put it up yourself, then it's your responsibility. That bio for CV is public knowledge, but it doesn't need to be associated with CV the username here on MMT unless CV wishes it. Being's as CV has put out there who he is, and anyone is free to do a Google search and find it and more, it is disingenuous on his part to claim it's personal info, but we will honor his wishes, silly though it may be in the big picture because it's not private at all based on what he's told people about himself. I understand that there have been issues in the past with employers being contacted, and I will keep my opinion of that matter to myself; suffice it to say, I don't ever see that as being an issue here. Again, this is all my personal opinion speaking, not my official policy.

I have a friend who was at a round table of start ups once and one of the presenters was explaining how his company could 100% guarantee keeping everything about you private if you signed up for their service. My friend called him out on it and offered to test the guy's name (he'd registered himself for the highest level). Within minutes, he'd found his mortgage info, home address, credit scores, speeding tickets, divorce decree, and other unsavory personal information that he showed the guy on his iPad rather than tell the group out loud and the guy turned sheet white, sat down, and didn't say another word.

It may be harsh of me to say, but if you've bought a house, gotten a mortgage or a credit card ever in your lifetime, paid taxes and social security to a government assigned ID, then you are not unknown. Anywhere. Does that mean that we trace you? No, it does not, that info doesn't matter to me at all to run this business.

How I operate personally is I expect that anything I do is public so I don't do anything that is illegal or would dishonor me or my family.
...Or I make sure there are as few of material witnesses as possible that I trust completely and I never ever speak of it again.

Back on topic to healthcare. People do stupid stuff with their health whether they have health care or not - preventative care is one of the least used reasons that we visit the doctor - we go only when we realize something is wrong, although us women are better about going for yearly checkups because it's been ingrained in us to do so (and if you want birth control pill prescriptions, you Have to). Americans are as a whole lazier, wasteful, fatter, and spoiled. We expect quick fixes with pills rather than healthy lifestyles that require discipline and effort every day.

Just my 2 cents.

It's all in the TOS: http://mymountaintown.com/my-mountain-town-home/tos

As I posted on another thread in response to towermonkey's post :

towermonkey wrote: After reading SC's response and cavalier attitude towards it, I think I'll join you and not bother to post here anymore.

Science Chic wrote: I'm sorry if that's how you read my post towermonkey, because that's not how I meant it at all. If you notice, all personal references identifying CV's employer were taken down - not left up. If I had a cavalier attitude, they wouldn't have been. I take personal identifiable information being posted very seriously and take care of it as soon as I see something happening. This thread that CV started is of his own accord, I wrote and suggested he remove it as he identified himself and maybe he doesn't want to do that, but it's entirely up to him.

My own personal opinion has nothing to do with how I operate this business, I merely stated that because I felt it important to let everyone know that they need to be careful if they do wish to try to remain as anonymous as possible - very few realize how much of their information is already out there. I also pointed out that we do not track anyone who registers here as we do not need to do anything of the sort to run this business. I take that privacy afforded our members seriously as well.