Do not pressure posters into ingoring professional reporting requirements

[Marley23]

@Syntropy

Have we really come to the point where you are reprimanding a poster for reminding other posters to do that which they are legally required to do, and couching it in such a way that you appear to be dismissing that reminder as a campaign?

I’m dismissing it because it was plainly against the rules, and because SmartAleq was trying to cause a problem for the board because she expected us to do something she didn’t like. It’s pretty simple.

Professionals know what their reporting obligations are, and if they had any that related to anonymous message board activity, they probably reported the guy six months ago. They’ll do whatever they are obligated to do. On the other hand, she’s encouraging people to make trouble for the SDMB as a foot-stamping protest and in a way that’s against the rules. I think it’s fair to respond to that, and I did so politely.

@Syntropy

1. Marley quoted the registration agreement and called SA’s post a campaign on the level with spam. That’s not ‘please don’t do this.’

This is really nonsense. Here’s what I said:

@Marley23

No warning issued, but please don’t do this. […] Please be more careful in the future.

It’s true the rule I quoted also includes spam, but it includes other types of posts, too. The bottom line is that she was encouraging posters to get into a campaign against the SDMB, and it does violate our rules. So I politely asked her not to do this again.

You know who else politely asked people not to do things? Hitler.

@Fenris

Kinda like encouraging people to take the specific agressive action of changing the laws to allow people to rape kids?

He hasn’t done that, though.

@Syntropy

What SA said was nothing more and nothing less than ‘I hope if a mandatory reporter sees something in his posts worth reporting, they do so.’

She clearly said more than that.