The fact remains, you are sending (seeding, you say) bad information to the group. Everyone is provided with faulty information so that you can expose or get even with one or two people who you believe are misusing your research. How do we know when you're telling the truth and when you are not? And if you were a cop would you arrest everybody to ensure that you got the crook who robbed the bank? There's something about the ethicality and the fairness of what you're doing that doesn't set right with me.
I agree with your desire to clean up the list and I think all of us have it in our own best interests to strive for accuracy and full recognition of the hard work we've put into researching our lines. How does being dishonest ourselves--and perpetrating further inaccuracies--help us achieve that end?
Chuck West
----- Original Message -----
From: Hobbs
To: Chuck West
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: Just my thoughts on Ancestry.com
Chuck,
Please do not regret your contribution to the dialogue. But, please carefully what I wrote.
a. I never send information in bulk.
b. I rarely send volumes of information to "cousins."
c. I occasionally seed one piece of bad information . . . . The operative word is occasionally. Perhaps I should have said, "really, really rarely." Actually, I do this when I sense I am about to get hammered.
Thanks for your response.
Bill Hobbs
Chuck West wrote:
I'll probably regret this, and I hate to prolong this thread, but Bill,
you've just said something I feel a need to respond to. I've seen others in
the past brag about planting misleading information in order to catch those
who "steal" or misuse our hard-won information, and on the surface of it,
that seems fair. But what about all those (hopefully the majority) folks who
take you at your word and would never misuse the information they believe
you have kindly provided? Are you saying it's OK to mislead everybody just
to expose one or two cretins? Do the rest of us deserve to be so treated?
Chuck West in Indiana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hobbs" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: Just my thoughts on Ancestry.com
I welcome the informative debate. I have been on this list long enough
to remember when any discussion was curtailed immediately and much
information that would have otherwise been offered was shut down.
I have made it a policy to never send information in bulk to anyone, the
LDS included, who will distribute that information at the drop of a hat.
I have recently decided to refrain from sending my information to most
of my "cousins" for reasons already stated by you folk. I have offered
documentation to cousins with bad information and have been ignored. It
is as if these people want a long name count and do not care about the
facts.
I also need to tell you that we can engage in internet genealogy and
still care about the facts.
Occasionally, I will "seed" one piece of bad information in with some
good. If what I have shared is misrepresented or misused, I then have
the ability to list or website readers that the published information
was erroneous and unauthorized and, at the very least, make clear the
name of the offender for all to see.
Bill Hobbs
Clayton Gullatt wrote:
This rant has gone on long enough. Get back on topic genealogy and family
history.
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