IMO these sorts of analogies to houses and porches don’t really work because there are just different cultural norms between websites and porches.
If there were a convention of leaving stuff on your porch to donate it, and a general assumption that when people left stuff on their porch it was up for grabs, somebody started storing their groceries there, and they were taken… they would just be stupid and not sympathetic.
If somebody just moved to a neighborhood where this was tradition and didn’t know about it, they would rightly be a little bit annoyed when the groceries they stored on their porch were taken, but really they only have themselves to blame for not understanding the local conventions.
If somebody opens up a storage company and then just put all the customers’ stuff on one of these porches, they are just dangerously, unethically incompetent. Even if there isn’t a convention of taking stuff from porches, actually. Because there are also armed gangs (nation-states) that go check out people’s porches for secrets.
If there were a convention of leaving stuff on your porch to donate it, and a general assumption that when people left stuff on their porch it was up for grabs, somebody started storing their groceries there, and they were taken… they would just be stupid and not sympathetic.
If somebody just moved to a neighborhood where this was tradition and didn’t know about it, they would rightly be a little bit annoyed when the groceries they stored on their porch were taken, but really they only have themselves to blame for not understanding the local conventions.
If somebody opens up a storage company and then just put all the customers’ stuff on one of these porches, they are just dangerously, unethically incompetent. Even if there isn’t a convention of taking stuff from porches, actually. Because there are also armed gangs (nation-states) that go check out people’s porches for secrets.