When a web site promotes transparency and hides their own actions, what are your thoughts?

My thoughts is that it must be ehow or a site owned by demand media. As they took all of their member's articles and cloned them on another site--without permission or sharing the revenue. Then when called out on it, they promised to take the articles off.

Instead, they gave broken links that would redirect the articles. Then they announced they would "generously compenstate" all of the members for use of their articles, because it did in fact hurt their earnings. Their "generous compensation" was less than 5% of one months earnings for most members... not to mention they used the articles on their site for 6 months.My action is that I will not longer be wasting any of my time with them and this will hurt them--I can dedicated more time to other sites: Mahalo, Infobarrel, Hubpages... and so on.

Many companies forget about the little people who help make them the site they are today. So I'll just go help another site build up competition against them like so many are doing.So my thoughts are that they suck, but in the long run, they are just hurting themselves.

I don't know which website you have in mind. But it's a fact about human nature that people and organisatiions see their own actions differently than when those same things are done by others. When you do it, you know your motives, you have excuses, there were circumstances that explain why you had to do it.

When others do it, you don't know their motives, and as often as not fill in the gap by attributing their behaviour to their bad character or malicious intent. This kind of thing is so basic that psychology labels it the "Fundamental Attribution Error". changingminds.org/explanations/theories/... allpsych.com/psychology101/attribution_a... On top of that, no one, and no organisation, lives up to their own values all of the time.

That doesn't mean that those aren't really their values. What I admire is that when people get called on falling short of their own standards, they put their hands up and say "you're right, that was a mistake. " Example... Wordpress-Gate... ma.tt/2005/04/a-response.

Yucky. Me no like. Not a very deep answer there, but my thoughts in response to this kind of thing are basically as simple as that... I guess it could depend on the situation, but I've rarely seen any company or organisation hide something about itself for any reason that is a good one.

I would decide to give them a chance and time to undo their actions. In addition, telling them that you're planning to warn others about the web site may get them change their deeds.

Not enough detail to answer this question well. Plus, I have a feeling this may be one of those gotcha questions. :-).

Just don't let anyone knows if you're doing evil. We hardly can do anything on small sites.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.