This is a tricky one. What is it that should be punishable?
-Finding out someone’s information? No. That’s off board activity.
-Posting someone’s real life information? Yes. Hell, not even the Snackpit allows that.
-Claiming that you found someone’s real life information? Borderline but probably ok.
-Claiming that you found someone’s real life information and telling others how to do the same? Yes. It’s as good as posting the information yourself.
If what SL did was wrong (and I think it was), then how about the James Otto Sweetheart thread where now we can easily find a poster’s Twitter account and other real life stuff? That is nearly the same thing.
Why have you warned him for asking you a question about your moderation, in the thread where you announce your moderating decision? And also, why did you not answer his question? This is not a hijack, it’s questions asked in the correct thread, in the correct forum.
Because he could have looked up the answer himself in about eight seconds, probably. He wasn’t asking about moderation. He was asking about the underlying posts.
I “ignored moderator instructions.” Which ones, I’m not sure: Marley specifically said if I read the linked thread and this one and still had a question, I could ask it. I read that thread and this one and still had the question. shrug
Because his first post in this thread was off-topic and the answers to all of his questions were obvious, and because I would like to see this thread remain on topic so actual questions can be answered instead of having the thread used to air years-old complaints. If you’ve read the Pit thread, you can see what Simple Linctus posted and I explained in very simple words why he’s been suspended.
If you read 600 posts in five minutes, I am not surprised you still had questions. Since you don’t seem to be interested in the subject of this thread, I’m instructing you not to post in it again.
This one is sketchy. If it’s simply a claim that you found out someone’s real life info, that’s one thing, but if you are either validating or invalidating someone’s claim then it seems to me that this will ultimately lead to releasing that information or telling others how to access it. Perhaps I’m wrong though.
Agreed.
I didn’t read that thread, but it would depend - what do you mean by ‘real life stuff’? If it’s simply a twitter account, that doesn’t seem to instantly mean to me that any real world information was passed along.
All of this said, the other category, which may fall under 3, is: finding information on another doper and then contacting that doper.
I do not think that should be a board violation - it’s off board activity. That said, SL’s announcing he did it seems to fall under 3. I do not think it’s appropriate behavior, but I’m having a problem seeing how it would be violating the rules. Suppose SL called pC and did essentially the same thing, yet he did not announce that he did so on the board. Would he be banned for that?
Saying you found something doesn’t mean much of anything.
I agree that telling posters how to find the information isn’t substantially different from posting it, but that kind of direct instruction isn’t really necessary anyway.
None of that is the same as contacting someone. That was a link to her Twitter account and to other message board accounts she has started under the same name she uses here. I didn’t see anything particularly personal there.
I still don’t see why why what Simple Linctus did resulted in disciplinary action. What’s wrong with calling and leaving a poster here a voice mail? Are we not allowed to do that?
Well, you might - it depends on the contact. For instance, what if PC simply announced that someone using the info Melon posted was harassing him. Melon would be implicated, but it wouldn’t necessary have to be Melon.
Whether Simple Linctus gets some other kind of punishment or not, don’t do this. It’s a creepy and stupid thing to do. If you don’t understand why, I don’t care - don’t do it anyway.
It would be unfair to punish AClockworkMelon if we weren’t sure he’s responsible.
Then someone who isn’t pchaos will get a confusing voice mail from someone with an English accent, I imagine. Or is there some other potential consequence I’m missing?