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August 16th, 2006 - 12:14 am
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I can see your point (and obviously I only intend to continue this conversation with one comment in any given thread), but it seems to me that it's still appropriate to draw a distinction between what people can do (whatever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want) on the basis of something they read online, and what they should do. The problem, as I see it, is that if we don't care what people do, then why do we bother with our no trolling rules on F_W? Or are we just concerned with online trolling, and RL trolling is okay? Does this mean we'd ban someone for linking the subject of a wank back to F_W, but we wouldn't ban them for contacting their school/employers/parents/priest? That just seems a) very inconsistent and b) to show a slightly warped sense of priorities.
Me, and I think we certainly agree on this, I think taking anything online into RL is tacky. But I agree with your point that b_p is not consistent in its actions. Frankly, I was under the impression that the whole raison d'etre of b_p was muckracking, so contacting the police was not out of the question. But if you're going to publish information in an open community, then it is unrealistic to think that you can police what people do with that information. But if you accept that, then why bother having rules? |
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