Eric wrote:Unfortunately, because of Bob's crafty habit of editing posts, threatening the mods until threads are deleted, and changing usernames, I have to rely on screenshots for most of this.
So these PMs are on your previous user account, and you can't access them now?
Eric wrote:It turns out that Bob was lying to me when he said he emailed my step-dad, or as he later claimed, just didn't have the right email address. He also later claimed that he sent an email to Dan Peterson, but Dan Peterson claimed that he had not received Bob's email until after the email was already sent, absolving Bob of any wrong doing and maintaining his own benevolence. The details of that are discussed in the thread Bob was furiously trying to censor yesterday on page 10 (where, coincidentally, most of yesterdays edits are found): http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/vie ... &start=189)
HERE is a cached version of the thread, preserving the posts Yahoo Bot/Bob edited yesterday. The edits are mostly Yahoo Bot/Bob deleting accusations that people are stalking him, I think. He does discuss details in a post on page 9, however:
Yahoo Bot/Bob wrote:Some time ago on this board, I took exception to him exposing certain details about his father and sister on this board. His father is a good friend of mine and a past client -- at least, I have given him legal advice. After giving Eric private notice to remove the material, I then went public and called him out on it and defended his family. I then emailed his father to report on what I'd seen, but the email address was not a good one and his father never heard from me about it until after Dr. Peterson notified him about it, and only perhaps a year later.
I haven't found a post where he admits to sending Daniel Peterson an email about it.
It's clear, however, that both Daniel Peterson and Yahoo Bot/Bob "took exception" to your anonymous posts, and on the strength of their personal distaste alone, decided to expose you for it, against your clear wishes, and regardless of the effect that exposure (including both its terrible timing and the ideas expressed in the posts) might have on you and your family. I'm not sure there was a more destructive way for them to handle the situation.
This behavior has come, without any apology I've seen, from two fully-grown, adult Melchizedek Priesthood holders who claim to believe that the Golden Rule is a divine commandment, and that Christ will hold them accountable for how they follow it in their lives. That kind of obliviousness (or, possibly, cynicism), from these aspiring disciples of Christ seems like a good reason, all by itself, for any poster here to stay anonymous, and to protect their identity very well.
Yahoo Bot/Bob: You, the most vocal opponent of anonymity on this board, actually seem to be a main justification for it.
-JV