I'm with everyone who's against outing someone else's real life (RL) information at all costs. It's based both on principle of your agreement to the terms of use of this website and how much you respect not just the honor code, but your own self-interests as well. Stating the obvious, the harm caused by outing someone else's RL information ruins the other person's legal standings leading to prison , family life, and career life. And remember, ruining someone's career leads to how much bread they can afford to feed their children. Many hobbyists and providers here have children that are dependent on having a constant source of necessities that cost money, so fucking someone else over will lead to harming individuals who had no involvement with any conflict. Regardless of having children, that damage you bring to someone has life scarring misfortunes, which is what we all need to be dearly cautious about and this cannot be taken lightly.
Furthermore, again stating what is a no-brainer is that, get ready to be outed back if you out someone else. And if you are not afraid of the receiving the same reprecussions that you are bringing to someone else, you are basically saying that you have nothing left to lose making you lower than bird shit (bird shit at least provides nourishment to plants as a fertilizer, whereas the person who is outing someone else is not helping the conflict, the people around them, or themselves thus qualifying themselves literally being lower than bird shit). If you're comfortable with being lower than bird shit, then you admit to yourself the lack of integrity that you have.
The easiest way to handle this conflict is to prevent the same mistakes leading whatever conflict tempting to out someone. Message the moderators, alert people in the appropriate threads to stay away from the trouble maker using their identifying username (yes I know that person can make another username, but it's not hard to find parallel actions to identify that trouble maker), and go work on something that leads to building the quality of your own life rather than to actions to destroying someone else's (and your own - read above). This should be a no duh.
Originally Posted by petervire
This is the best post I have ever read on here.
There are posters here I like. There are also posters I really do NOT like. But in the end, they are real human beings who bleed and hurt just like I do. This entire community is built on a house of cards...trusting people we don't know to not fuck us over. The good thing is everyone has something to lose, so even if someone is shitty enough to want to destroy someone's family or career or ability to eat, they have to realize they are susceptible to the same.
So Peter, you are spot on that anyone with an attitude of "who gives a shit" is a person with zero self respect. Those are the most dangerous members of our community, because there is no collateral to keep them from doing the worst.
We all have things about us that aren't normal, or we wouldn't be here. But no matter how little I know or care about any of y'all, I would never want your spouse or your children or your parents to have to know all this...or for you to be shamed at work or lose your job...or anything of that nature. You basically have to be a sociopath to do that.