In addition to ethical behavior, simple common sense and general common courtesy by site owners involving the actual caring of the volunteers that contribute their free time should be law.
Imagine for a moment a hypothetical situation (of course.... [ATTACH]2026[/ATTACH] ) involving an asinine site owner that is so self-centered (or perhaps paranoid..?) and changes board settings to deny permission to the general public (non-registered members) to view a volunteer's public profile page.
One may wish to visit a user profile in a "Guest capacity" (even though they may in fact be a registered member), because they wish privacy/ anonymity (i.e., don’t want their every movement tracked) while reviewing a volunteer's information, posts, VMs, etc... possibly related to an award that a volunteer has been nominated for.
In this hypothetical situation, the Guest is greeted by an "Access Denied -- You do not have permission to view this page" type message and perhaps just moves on to a much friendlier, open forum where it is more convenient to look for other potential award candidates.
Meanwhile, the volunteer(s) at the site(s) with the EYES-ONLY/CONFIDENTIAL user profiles may possibly end up being passed over for consideration of an award they very much deserve.
Very sad indeed should this hypothetical situation ever come to fruition as it would simply enhance the notion that some site owners consider volunteers to be nothing more than expendable commodities.
Here at Sysnative Forums, I can say without reservation that we (Admins) serve at the volunteer’s pleasure; not vice-versa.
I hope you all are enjoying your weekend.
Kind Regards. . .
John
