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Originally posted by jschmeling:
Originally posted by Richard Berg:
Since I was about 16, I've always written with the intention that my words reach the widest possible audience.
The only thing that concerns me about this approach is that sometimes I would like advice or thoughts on an issue that I don't want to disclose to others at work, and some of them read Ars. Hell, they linked to an article here for our bi-weekly newsletter for work once, opening it up to hundreds of people because I posted in the thread on the issue. (It was a social security-related thread, and we work in that area.) Suddenly there's the possibility that people all over the country that I know will click on my name and see what other posts I've made, and some are decidedly not what I would have discussed at work with professional acquaintences.
True. I'm simply young enough to come up with idealistic retorts like: "The solution is for everyone to be equally honest. Every employee alive holds some unpopular opinions as well as his own skeletons in the closet. The presence of more rather than less information shifts the burden of self-censorship back where where it belongs -- onto those who care to interpret it (or not). It wouldn't take long at all for people in positions of authority to reevaluate which tidbits of knowledge really matter."