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Anonymous wrote:jsteele wrote:Folks, as a general rule we are uncomfortable with, and therefore are likely to delete, posts from anonymous posters that criticize identifiable individuals. Invariably, the targets of such anonymous posts complain that they are being defamed. We receive subpoenas requiring us to provide the IP addresses of posters on a fairly regular basis. It is my experience that some individuals who believe that they have been libeled are willing to go to great expense pursuiing legal action. Posters who believed that they were anonymous have, in fact, been identified and subject to legal action in the past.
As a result, to save ourselves the headache of responding to subpoenas and the posters here from being dragged into court, we try to remove posts that criticize identifiable individuals. Lately posters appear to have been under the impression that using initials somehow avoids this issue. It does not.
You are free to say whatever you want about whomever you want on this website as long as you identify yourself in a verifiable manner. As long as a lawyer can contact you directly and leave me out if it, I'll let you write whatever you want (with a few exceptions such as death threats). But I am not going to be your legal protection.
All of you, of course, have free speech rights. You are welcome to exercise those rights on your own website. On this website, you are expected to abide by our rules. A failure to do so will likely result, in a minimum, of your posts being removed
You have removed posts with one particular person's initials. Can you also remove posts containing others' initials and job titles? Lots of talk here about older heads of school, division heads, interim heads, admissions staff, athletic director, etc. Would be very easy to look in the school's faculty directory and see exactly who those people are.
This is a 56 page thread and I have other things to do in life than search for initials, some of which I don't recognize as initials. If posters want to report posts, I'll be happy to take a look at them. Otherwise, I'm doing the best that I can.
We have not done such an analysis and I am not sure how it would be done. One issue is that the demographics of users change over time. So, changes in forums may not reflect changes in attitudes so much as they reflect different types of users. For instance, today's users from northwest DC may have the same attitudes as users from northwest DC 15 years ago but the parenting forums now are more likely to reflect the attitudes of posters from outside that geographical area.
Folks, as a general rule we are uncomfortable with, and therefore are likely to delete, posts from anonymous posters that criticize identifiable individuals. Invariably, the targets of such anonymous posts complain that they are being defamed. We receive subpoenas requiring us to provide the IP addresses of posters on a fairly regular basis. It is my experience that some individuals who believe that they have been libeled are willing to go to great expense pursuiing legal action. Posters who believed that they were anonymous have, in fact, been identified and subject to legal action in the past.
As a result, to save ourselves the headache of responding to subpoenas and the posters here from being dragged into court, we try to remove posts that criticize identifiable individuals. Lately posters appear to have been under the impression that using initials somehow avoids this issue. It does not.
You are free to say whatever you want about whomever you want on this website as long as you identify yourself in a verifiable manner. As long as a lawyer can contact you directly and leave me out if it, I'll let you write whatever you want (with a few exceptions such as death threats). But I am not going to be your legal protection.
All of you, of course, have free speech rights. You are welcome to exercise those rights on your own website. On this website, you are expected to abide by our rules. A failure to do so will likely result, in a minimum, of your posts being removed
As a result, to save ourselves the headache of responding to subpoenas and the posters here from being dragged into court, we try to remove posts that criticize identifiable individuals. Lately posters appear to have been under the impression that using initials somehow avoids this issue. It does not.
You are free to say whatever you want about whomever you want on this website as long as you identify yourself in a verifiable manner. As long as a lawyer can contact you directly and leave me out if it, I'll let you write whatever you want (with a few exceptions such as death threats). But I am not going to be your legal protection.
All of you, of course, have free speech rights. You are welcome to exercise those rights on your own website. On this website, you are expected to abide by our rules. A failure to do so will likely result, in a minimum, of your posts being removed
There are constant threads about height that appear to be from a poster obsessed with the topic. That poster started two threads about height, one about short men and one about short women. The poster should probably find a better hobby.
Anonymous wrote:Jeff,
The poster is continuing to just stir stuff up. She’s accusing people of racism if they don’t like a certain character who happens to be black. If anyone explains why they think this character is boring, she goes ballistic. Can you please take a look? I reported a few sock puppeting posts. The latest is someone else actually posted and agreed and she is now going nuts with nonsense posts. She thinks it was me bringing it back up but it wasn’t.
The posts that were reported for sock puppeting were not sock puppeted. As I said earlier, I don't have it in me to read through that thread. If you want to report the posts in question, I'll take a look at them. But I am not getting involved otherwise.
Anonymous wrote:jsteele wrote:I still have not seen any of this behavior. Is anyone getting it who is not using Chrome?
I have informed our advertising partner about and they are looking into it.
I tried using Microsoft Edge and I'm still getting the "are you sure you want to leave this page" message.
Thanks for the feedback. I will let our ad parter know.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Photo shopped
https://bsky.app/profile/reportbywilson.bsky.social/post/3ln2nq5pebc2u
You should think twice before believing things told to you by murderous dictators
Nope scroll further. Not photoshopped.
Here is what the New York Times is reporting about the photo:
"But according to a person familiar with the situation, a Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/senator-chris-van-hollen-el-salvador-prison.html
Anonymous wrote:2 judges and the arresting officers from PG County stated he was MS 13.
I tried calling HR at MS 13 to confirm, but they wouldnt answer
Just for the record, both of the judges relied on a report by a PG County detective who was later suspended due to mishandling investigative information. His report said that Abrego García was a member of MS-13 because he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hoody and hat and because of information from a confidential informer. The informer said that Abrego García was the leader of a MS-13 chapter in Western New York, a place that Abrego García has never lived. That accusation was made in 2019 and, since then, Abrego García has done nothing to suggest that he is a gang member. He is an apprentice in the building trades union.
Look at this group of terrorist supporters:
If you read the article to which you linked, there is really nothing there to the charges. Trump told his officials to go after his political enemies and that is what they are doing. These allegations originated with a convicted fraudster. This administration lies constantly. This is a pretty transparent attempt to generate bad publicity for James and not an authentic concern about fraud. As such, I see no reason for DCUM to participate in it.