Hypocrisy exposed!

Very good article on the b.s. media coverage and true blurred lines in LE activity.

staff edit: remove link that revealed real life names, per guideline-s31

#5 - Outing or threats of outing are taken seriously. Membership here is anonymous and for the privacy of our members it will remain that way. That means any effort or attempt to connect a person's real world information to their username on this board will be dealt with swiftly and harshly. This includes real names, employment, medical info, addresses past or present, images, criminal or driving record, etc. We expect everyone who participates here to respect and go to great lengths to protect the anonymity and privacy of one another. Reckless disregard or accidental outing will also be taken very seriously.

On a related local note.

staff edit: remove link that revealed real life names, per guidelines-s31

#5 - Outing or threats of outing are taken seriously. Membership here is anonymous and for the privacy of our members it will remain that way. That means any effort or attempt to connect a person's real world information to their username on this board will be dealt with swiftly and harshly. This includes real names, employment, medical info, addresses past or present, images, criminal or driving record, etc. We expect everyone who participates here to respect and go to great lengths to protect the anonymity and privacy of one another. Reckless disregard or accidental outing will also be taken very seriously.

I'm just curious, how many times do the mods have to tell you board members NOT to post a link with REAL NAMES in it? And I'm not referring to the cops, lawyers or the former owners. You read that article, don't tell me you didn't realize there was a real name in there.

Sometimes I truly worry about some of y'all.

Good grief

Ms Elena, apparently there has been a board policy change that as long as current board members aren't named its permissible. . But then it may have changed back. I'm pretty sure I don't know where it stands now. But I read more info in that article than I feel comfortable knowing.

After several recent discussions in the staff area the decision was made by the owner to not allow outing of not only members, but also non-members. Who is to say the non-member doesn't become a member at some point.

After several recent discussions in the staff area the decision was made by the owner to not allow outing of not only members, but also non-members. Who is to say the non-member doesn't become a member at some point. Originally Posted by scorpio31

Thanks for the further clarification. I think that policy makes sense.

Other sites can track incoming traffic, that is the "referrer" link in an http header that gets sent to the linked site from your browser, creating a logical relationship between the content of the link and this site. A smart webmaster or site administrator can easily see where that traffic is coming from, drawing attention to this site that me not be ideal. I think it's a good policy to prohibit links to rw people regardless of whether they might become a member.