Truthfully, I think you guys got a little too involved in trying to beat up some internet douchebag to realize you could have been wrong. Whispers wasn't the point of the thread. The point of the thread was that somebody was actively trying to potentially KILL members of the community. That absolutely needed to be communicated.You just basically said in one short post what has taken me over 8 pages to do.
I've never really agreed with how these link removals have been handled but that is strictly my opinion. There is really NO difference between posting a link to a news story and just saying "Hey, go check out the Columbia Tribune for a provider spreading HIV." No difference at all. 99% of the people on the board can find that. Unlike these supposed BACK CHANNELS that are completely ineffective for probably 80% of the board, posting news about the hobby helps us all. So, if there is no difference between how the information is communicated, there really is no outing involved by posting a link. The "Outing" happens at the time of the arrest, when someone's name is linked to a alleged crime in the Public Record and then further outed when the news picks up the story. But then real life names do not even link to board handles. The only thing that actually would is if someone's FACE is shown in a mugshot AND that someone has used their face in ECCIE (or BP). Just like with this provider in question. We know very little by just her name. We don't know if she's worked in KC. Nobody knows if they've already banged the girl or not and should get tested. Nobody knows if their next customer that is on the way over to get a BBBJ has been with the provider. If her face was posted, and it was clear that she was on the site (used her face in pics on the site) or some other method of linking the real life name to an ECCIE account, then remove the link. For guys it's a different standard. Since guys never use our face on the site, just posting an article to an arrest doesn't 'out' us on the site AT ALL. Unless the news article says "Tom Smith, better known as Kcsmutmonkey on ECCIE, was arrested for Soliciting an Prostitute" then NO OUTING HAS OCCURRED.
This is how I would handle and/or interpret the outing rule. I fully understand this is not how it was handled in KC in the past but that doesn't mean that past mods were right to handle it that way. Originally Posted by KCSmutMonkey