Carton wrote:I'm no fan of Mormon apologetics and apologists, but I am bothered by the fact that people from this otherwise great message board used posts from this board to make what amounts to an ad hominem attack on a poster who chose to use his real-life identity when posting here. To me, it doesn't matter what was said. In my opinion, it's just really poor form and violates what I think is a more or less "unwritten rule" of online forums that "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas". Or in other words "what happens at MDB stays at MDB". I can see certain exceptions, like if someone was making online threats or other things that violate criminal law like someone talking about child porn or something like that. But I think the whole idea of gathering together posts from someone whose name you know or have discovered and then using them to damage that person in his life outside the forum is just plain wrong.
I'm sure there are people who will disagree with me, but that's my two cents.
Your post seems to be based on a misapprehension. William Schryver's identity was not 'discovered' by someone on this board and then revealed. He posted here under his real name, proudly proclaiming his real identity and giving lots of details about his life, many aspects of which he in effect boasted about, for years.
One aspect of his posts on this board that many readers of this board found repellent, including myself, was his very unpleasant abuse of women posters (in posts on this board, may I repeat that he made like all the others under his real name). What MsJack did was to gather together a wide selection of the choicest specimens of those posts, and exhibit them together on this board, drawing the obvious conclusion that if men treated women like that online it would make female participation less likely.
Schryver did not dispute that the posts quoted had been made (the only dispute of substance on that thread was whether he had used a word beginning with 'c' that refers to the female pudenda). At no stage did he complain that his identity had been revealed - had he done so, it would have been patently ridiculous, since he had always posted under that identity.