I know posting someone else’s information is a bannable offense here, but what about our own? Is that bannable as well? Or is it a “do it at your own risk” sort of thing?
I’m not in any way a representative of the SDMB, The Straight Dope or the Chicago Reader. But I do visit here from time to time and I have seen the mods remove phone numbers. I’d guess addresses would get deleted as well.
There’s no good way for the mods/admins to know if you’re really the one whose phone number or address is posted. It’s not a great idea to post your email addy either. If you want to communicate with someone, email them or make your email available via the email button.
Lots of posters have registered under or posted their real names, and I haven’t noticed the administration having a problem with that. I think if you’re here long enough, some people will know your real name eventually. Don’t post suff that you can’t survive becoming associated with your real name on a public message board.
No, do not post phone numbers or addresses on this message board. Use email if you want someone to know your phone/address. You shouldn’t be broadcasting it on the internet, anyway, we have a LOT of lurkers, and not all of them are people you’d want to have calling you, or showing up at your doorstep.
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I know - I didn’t have to, but somehow that one just bothered me.
Glad you did, thanks, Ringo.
Our views on this bear repeating.
Never say anything on this board – or anywhere else online, for that matter – that you would not mind seeing on a billboard just outside your house.
People think of online as being incredibly intimate, probably because you’re usually in an intimate place when you’re typing and you’re often dealing with people one on one. But that is deceptive; thousands of people are potentially reading every word you say.
We’ve had a lot of email from people who indulged themselves or simply slipped in the heat of the moment and revealed information they had cause to regret later. Some of them are quite frantic as they beg for assistance. “My boss . . . my spouse . . . my mother . . . I’ll be in big trouble if they see what I wrote.”
Save yourself; think before you share.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
It’s like the punchline to that old joke, “I don’t think I’da told THAT.” I think that a lot online.