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By: A Photojournalist Who Blogs

A Photojournalist Who Blogs — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:08:11 +0000

I think that you’re lucky the first two deaths in the community have been people that were either neutral or well respected members. What if a scum bag dies and everyone starts trampling on his/her grave – of course your comment moderators can filter a lot of that – but still they’ll need special guidance. Do they let any sort of negative comment through? Or a balance or what? Hairy stuff but I am really glad you’re thinking ahead to what that policy should look like. I agree that not taking the person’s profile down is a good idea- let people grieve. Maybe there’s an inactive profile policy that would catch the deceased as well as anyone who just hasn’t been around in a year or whatever time limit.