No, I want a discussion via the community.
I want to receive feedback and to hear how my point of view is seen by others (not only admins) - but I would be happy to hear some ‘official’ statements as well.
I want a honest discussion, because I think this is a sensitive topic and I feel it is important to regularly review it and also to think about future scenarios and use cases.
Sorry if the course of the thread confuses you - I started with an initial, easy scenario only to extend it to more complicated matters.
The title has been adjusted to this more specific first scenario by a forum moderator (I changed it again).
The fourth scenario is an interesting one, because it could be thought-provoking:
how likely is it that you as a bystander would witness someone mocking someone else?
Isn’t it rather likely that by the photo/observation alone a curator wouldn’t be able to tell if something is bullying/harassment, and that these cases of mockery occur unnoticed by someone responsible?
And also no, I am not advocating for going back deleting millions of observations or photos.
I am not even saying that from the hypothetical time point of policy change EVERY Human photo HAS to be removed.
But I feel that currently removing of photos is only supported when there is clear evidence or it is at least very likely that it is used against the will of the subject. With a policy change, at least no one should complain when respective actions are taken, even if the photo appears harmless.