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   Jul 13, 2008

   sandralce says:

   I am new to this site therefore I have no idea what I am doing nor how to use th...

   I am new to this site therefore I have no idea what I am doing nor how to use this site yet. But one thing I know I already like about this site is that if I am correct it lets you know that sometimes your response may be from a child. I noticed it said children(11) I took this to mean that there are/were 11 children logged in to the site and if I were to communicate with anyone the possibility that a child would respond was a definite possibility and I would know it was a child. An awareness like this is good in order to prevent any kind of abuse as well as documentation towards the response received.

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      Jul 13, 2008

      richard.friedman.at.sun says:

      Unfortunately, on the internet, no one really knows for sure who is a child and ...

      Unfortunately, on the internet, no one really knows for sure who is a child and who isn't. Or a dog, for that matter. But if children were to find this site useful, I think we would want to hire them right away. For the material presented here is not mere child's play.

      But let me give you an example.

      The people who designed this site foolishly took the words "Children" and "Child Page" to refer to web pages subordinate to this "parent" page. Not real, human children, silly. Just an analogy of the relationship of a child to its parent. (Actually, only a single parent is implied here, some sort of immaculate concept of family, where there is no sex ... just parents and children.)

      Now, programmers do, at times, tend to abuse words. They abstract notions like "Child" and "Parent" by removing the blood and souls of these concepts, boiling them down to just the essence of a happy family .. parent pages and child pages living in wiki bliss. Really, there is no possibility of child abuse here. Believe me.

      So do not be misled by the poor choice of terminology in wikidom. We are all someone's child. Some of us are even someone's parent.

      And these are pages. Just pages. Lots of pages. Pages upon pages upon pages. Billions and billions of pages.

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