Posting a private message is frowned upon, but is not a violation of the Terms of Service (TOS) as long as no real name, home address, work address, phone numbers, etc. are revealed. That information shall forever remain private so that people are not harassed into silence.

People in the past have posted PM's, some as a parody, and we've had some good fun as a result. (CAP comes to mind, here.)

An analogue in the real world is publishing a snail-mailed letter or email you received. This happens all the time, and is an important element of journalism. I make it a point to publish FF emails, for example, in the Fan Mail section. Even when copyright is claimed on the original work, the "fair use" doctrine permits publication for academic, news reporting, criticism and parody.

p.s. BALM makes a good case for preserving privacy. However, while privacy is important, in this case, free speech trumps it (with the aforementioned caveat about not publishing personal identifying information).

Feel free to discuss...

Shon

sounds reasonable

Sounds fair. Won't happen again.

Unless my account gets messed up with unfairly again.

aw mom, you never let us have any fun.

Shon, please restore Whizz's karmas that were unfairly stolen.

Thank you.

Yes, I need to K Nancy.

People who DELIBERATELY break the rules should loose their Karma... will make them think twice before doing so again.

People who DELIBERATELY break the rules should loose their Karma... will make them think twice before doing so again.

You must really be the life of the party at your office.

A wise decision.....



Bans should only be used for blantant privacy violations, Trolls and spammers...

not silly disagreements......

By the Way...

Whizzes address is

2405 Surrender Street
Paris France...

OH NO!!! IM A GONER!!!!

whizz2 wrote:

People who DELIBERATELY break the rules should loose their Karma... will make them think twice before doing so again.

You must really be the life of the party at your office.

Assumptions are great aren't they? I don't work in a office, and you got what you deserved.

I don't work in a office, and you got what you deserved

Are the two propositions related somehow?

People who DELIBERATELY break the rules should loose their Karma... will make them think twice before doing so again.

Exactly, and this is why Whizz's karma has to be restored, according to Shon:

Posting a private message is frowned upon, but is not a violation of the Terms of Service (TOS)

whizz2 wrote:

I don't work in a office, and you got what you deserved

Are the two propositions related somehow?

Wow, no wonder the majority here hates you. Your arguments are like Ledzeps.... "I know you are, but what am I?"

Whizzes address is

2405 Surrender Street
Paris France...

OH NO!!! IM A GONER!!!!

Did I ever tell you that you that you're such a barrel of laugh?

letarsier59 wrote:

People who DELIBERATELY break the rules should loose their Karma... will make them think twice before doing so again.

Exactly, and this is why Whizz's karma has to be restored, according to Shon:

Quote from Whizz.

Just a point I'd like to make.
I was banned for violating TOS, which I did.

I did pursue BALM through his threads,

Whizz

You must really be the life of the party at your office.

You must really be the life and soul of the party at your office.

Whizz wrote this sentence in an other thread and before Shon stated that this was not against the rules.

Now, feel free to start your own flame against the owner of this website if you think that his estimation of the TOS are wrong.

Quote from Whizz.

Just a point I'd like to make.
I was banned for violating TOS, which I did.

I did pursue BALM through his threads,

So what? How many people stalk others from thread to thread with no action ever taken against them? I have several stalkers myself but it would never cross my mind to be a sniveling cunt like BALM. He could do the same thing I do, ignore them. Of course BALM isn't smart enough to think of that.

DatedinFrance,

The majority of what, the 5 to 10 retards who pretend to know something other than donut flavours and nuclear bombardment is the answer to all.

Believe me when I say that Whizz or myself will survive your vaunted attack.

BTW would you still like to lick my feet or has the offer expired?

Exactly my point Nancy, thank you.

no wonder the majority here hates you

Starspangled chevy and you make up the three Stooges, not a majority.

Shon -

Dear God
I hope you are ready for an attack by Balm the Terrible AKA My laws by amoeba & Saw yob blame yam etc

he has SPOKEN and DECLARED in capitol letters even

post PM's is a NO NO - is that plain enough for you

so please either get ready to retract the statement or ditch the tosser ASAP - it's going 2 the dog's

no wonder the majority here hates you



Starspangled chevy and you make up the three Stooges, not a majority.

Glad we could be of service wizzie.

Great post from SHON !! (who is god btw ..)

Indeed BALM trying to pass PMs as highly precise and factual private info is just grotesque, exactly like he is himself.

The thing is SHON, now, it is obvious that little Balmy boy cannot remain a mod : he completely lost face even if he didn't even have one in the first place.

So you need to fire his ass soon and nominate someone else : I say either RockOff or Rev_al

BALM makes a good case for preserving privacy. However, while privacy is important, in this case, free speech trumps it