[House] Media policy.

[Ruth Anne]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2013, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 01:56:01PM -0700, Ruth Anne wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> For baby butts and such.  Please.
>>
>>
>> 1. No vulvas, anytime, anywhere.
>>
>> 2. Butts are ok. Please don't put a "butt" label on the pic,
>> though.
>>
>> 3. Bath pictures ok, with policy #1 observed.
>>
>> shall i go ahead and post this to house list?
>
> I did it for you.  :)
>
> First off: any disagreements on this policy?  I gather RA came to
> these choices by looking around online at what people have actually
> gotten in trouble for, but she would have to speak more to that
> part.
>
> Regardless of what policy we settle on, for those pictures I have
> that violate it (and I'm sure there are some):
>
> 1.  Right now such pictures are on dropbox and on google photos, but
> in both cases locked to a very specific set up people (this is the
> babies-private folder).  I gather everybody would prefer that they
> not be in either place and should simply be deleted, which is fine,
> but just confirming.

correct.

> 2.  Dropbox auto-backs-up files.  To get them back once deleted, you
> have to explicitly go through the list of all files deleted every
> and find them *by name*, which is a staggering pain in the ass since
> all my photos are named like IMG-20131212-121212.jpg.  I just
> checked, and deleted photos do not show thumbnails or sizes, only
> the file name.  It would be a *ginormous* pain in the ass for me to
> track down, by name, every photo I delete to permanently delete it
> from dropbox, but I will if that's what people think is necessary.
> May I have permission to simple delete the files from dropbox
> normally without tracking down the backups?

yes

> 3.  Is it sufficient to pull such files from all online everything,
> or do I have to delete them from my personal computer as well?

Yes, and no. Just don't go doing anything that would get your 
computers seized. :)

--Ruth Anne