Well, I think — as with so many things — it's a matter of setting consumer expectations. That's something that any of us who work with terms of service and privacy policies should be sensitive to, maybe moreso than anyone else, since *those* documents are all about setting user expectations in a clear and understandable way...and of course people's failure to do so leads to this project.
If users come into a product knowing what it is and what to expect from it, they aren't negatively surprised by its normal behavior. I think in all the press TOS:DR has gotten, some people have billed it as a cure-all, an easy button that will read all terms of service for you and tell you in simple terms what they say and whether or not you should trust them. That's not what the project is, and that's not what the extension does. So it may be worthwhile to clarify, on the download page, that this is part of an ongoing community project to classify terms of service. I mean...yes, TOS:DR says that in other places on the website, but we of all people can hardly fault users for not reading all the words, can we? On Thursday, July 10, 2014 2:02:46 AM UTC-7, Anna Morris wrote: > > > Hi, I have been coming back to this email in my mind a few times since I > first read it. > > I have often found people to be surprised, even angered, by the idea of > "community involvement". I can never work out how many these people > simply don't understand what is before them and how many actually > disagree with the way "we" (Free Culture, Free Software etc etc) work in > our projects. > > We now live in a world of /Wikipedia/ being the biggest website... is it > possible that people still don't understand? > > As someone on "the inside" of so many of these communities, I don't > notice sometimes how far we still have to go to explain the idea that > "you can build something together that belongs to everyone" (and that > this does not constitute a con or exploitation). > > This email from Rita had made me feel quite sad really > > Anna > > > > -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
