Sledge wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 6:47 pm
I understand, but I really don't think moderators have access to personal information, other than IP address, which don't tell you anything.
I've been posting online over 2 decades. I have seen people, even here, play fast and loose with people's in real life on the board, in the chat, via messages, and via email. I've seen people get pissed off and divulge, sometimes in collaboration with another pissed off poster. I've seen people drunk doxxed here. I've seen in real life jump around the boards on to blogs and back again. I've seen persons wrongly identified and wrongly accused, thereby putting an additional innocent party's in real life in harm's way--family, friends, employment. I've had posters here share in real life about their adversaries behind the scenes with me when I never once showed an interest in it. IP addresses are but one source of confirmation that can lead to pursuit of additional in real life.
I don't like it. I don't do it. I don't like it when others do it because they use it to damage people.
Again, and speaking only for myself, I need more time to know you.