The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

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@amal

We’ve made it clear that Dangerous Things is allowed to use content posted here for our own purposes. Specifically, we wanted to be able to use photos and videos shared here on our product pages and social media accounts, which is deemed as “commercial activity” because of course we are a company, so we felt it important to call it out specifically.

@amal

If anyone doesn’t want content shared here to be used in this way by Dangerous Things, you’re free to remove it from the forum. Alternatively, if you don’t want to do that, but we end up using something on one of our social media posts or on a product page or something, and you don’t want your content used, you can just ping us about it and we’ll more than likely take it down at your request.

My quick opinion:
I feel like asking before using content is a more respectful way than doing it and having the person find out afterwards. Terms of service are one thing and make sense the way they are, but IRL people are mostly unaware of them and would be negatively surprised to see their content “commercially” used without a courtesy notification.
While things like reposting or tagging on social media are widely accepted, taking photos from a forum to put on a product page is arguably less conventional and deserves a bit more finesse.
I personally don’t care, if I post it online it’s public end of the story but that’s not everyone’s opinion especially when business is involved.