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[quote=jsteele]There is a poster who continually reports posts related to the crash that killed the son of the mother featured in the ad in the original post of this thread. The person is very protective of the other driver. Since that person does not provide contact information in the reports, I have no way of responding privately to the person. So, I will do it here. First, here are the two reports that I received today:

I received this post at 1:00 pm

[quote]You are allowing a teen offender to be doxxed by allowing the parent's name to be published. She has not gone public or sought publicity, unlike the parent of the student who died, who has written public articles and appeared in public commercials to support a particular candidate for state office.

You need to remove this immediately.
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I had no idea who the person mentioned in the reported post was. I Googled the name, which did not provide any connection to this thread, and then began reading the thread to try to understand what was going on. I removed the reported post at 1:09, or nine minutes after I received the above report.

At 1:12, I received the following report from the same person:

[quote]As you may be aware, xxxx xxxx is the mother of a juvenile involved in a tragic auto accident. You are allowing DCUM to be used to doxx the family and identify the juvenile, when a court specifically decided he should tried as a juvenile and not publicly identified. I think you are setting DCUM up for potential civil or criminal liability by allowing your forum to be used for these purposes. While I have no connection to this matter, I do believe strongly that decisions by local prosecutors to treat juvenile offenders as such, and not identified, should be respected. Your delay in deleting this post is only increasing your own potential liability as the number of posters reading the post increases.[/quote]

There are several points that I would like to make in response:

1) First, these reports are rude. I was very close to ignoring both of them on that basis alone. I am not your personal staff to be ordered around.

2) Second, this website received thousands of posts per day. I don't come close to reading all of them. The fact that a post exists on the website does not give any indication of my attitude toward the post. Rather than suggesting that I "allowed" it, it is likely that I haven't read it and don't know about it.

3) The post that was reported did not identify the individual as anyone's mother or as having any other role in the death of the young man. As such, I am not aware of any possible civil or criminal liability that anyone, let alone me, might suffer. Given the current legal environment regarding social media, which was just reinforced by the Supreme Court, it is very unlikely that I personally, or DCUM as a company, would be under any legal threat. I resent your attempt to bully me with such threats, hollow though they may be.

4) I removed  the post within 9 minutes. Even if we add 3 more minutes to cover the time of your second report, 13 minutes is hardly an unreasonable delay. I think most people would actually consider that to be a fairly timely response. As such, your second report is completely uncalled for.

If in the future you continue this bullying and threatening attitude, your reports will likely be ignored.
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