Is a link to an internet site the same as personal info??
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Majorbigtime thinks so! I posted a link to an internet site with info about him and CU removed it!
Hey, it's on the internet! How private can that be!!
Ken
Hey, it's on the internet! How private can that be!!
Ken
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<< <i>Is a link to an internet site the same as personal info?? >>
No, it isn't. Several people, (mostly trolls), have not only posted links to my sites, but have posted my full name, address and telephone number. It's all publically available information. Since I'm not a whiney little pimple, I've never complained about it to the mods.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>but why would you want to post someone's website without their permission. >>
Maybe we should ask just about everyone who posts here then! Is someone's ebay auction off limits unless we ask? Is a coin grading site off limits unless we ask permission? Etc, etc!
Ken
<< <i>No, but why would you want to post someone's website without their permission. I remember Russ when someone did that to you and personally think it was wrong. >>
Are you serious? You must ask someone's permission to link a website that can easily be found by Google or any other search engine? What am I missing here?
<< <i>If you don't want a question answered then don't post it. >>
Wow, get an attitude! Yes, you answered the question, and I asked you some more! Maybe if you don't like the questions, then maybe you shouldn't answer them!!
Ken
links pertaining to my appearance to in Newsweek Magazine have been posted....
(as long as they spell my name right.....it's all good....)
I'll ask one more time, why did you post it? If you choose to avoid the question that is your perogative.
If they don't want you to link to thier site it would be nice to respect that. Unfortunately it seems common courtesy around here has been replaced with a tendency to look for confrontational opportunities such as a poll from last night (that appears to have been removed). I don't know the nature of your link, was it well intentioned?
<< <i>You gonna start another fight over something so silly? >>
Now what are you talking about?
I think it sets a bad example.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
<< <i>If they don't want you to link to thier site it would be nice to respect that. Unfortunately it seems common courtesy around here has been replaced with a tendency to look for confrontational opportunities such as a poll from last night (that appears to have been removed). I don't know the nature of your link, was it well intentioned? >>
Exactly!
have a reasonable suspicion that the link will not produce bad feelings or
you have a hankerin to kick the beehive,
you should seek permission to reveal information about someone even if it is public knowledge.
My home address might be "available" on the internet if you were savy but if someone posted it I WOULD GO BALLISTIC.
<< <i> I don't know the nature of your link, was it well intentioned? >>
Well, people have questioned time and again whether majorbigtime really is a lawyer. I simply posted a link to a site that clearly shows that he is! Maybe he is ashamed of something!
Ken
(Not that any lawyers here have their reputations and integrity impugned at every turn....with little justification.)
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Sorry, majorbigtime, but you disclosed your info in the form of your name and your profession and someone tracked you down. You had no cause to complain.
Also, nowhere in what I just read did it say that it was forbidden to post personally identifiable information about others.
<< <i>Also, nowhere in what I just read did it say that it was forbidden to post personally identifiable information about others. >>
It shouldn't be necessary for the admins to make a rule regarding what should be common courtesy.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
Just yet another opinion of an Arrogant, Capitalist American.
the respectful thing to do would be ask permission to link to it, but it's not a requirement.
my .02
No one has offered a reason why posting someone's personal information is appropriate. I'll do so, though, just to get it out of the way - when someone has been scamming people, and the victims need help trying to locate the scammer. That's a special case. Is "Just because I can" a sufficient reason to post personally identifying information that might happen to be on a web site somewhere? Is "I don't like you" a good enough reason? I hope not.
Here's where this could lead: A board member wants to stay anonymous, and so does not list their name or email in their profile nor does the member ever post anything that could identify him/her. At some point, the member participates in a deal on the BST board. The other party in the deal later becomes unhappy about something the member posted. Using the personal information they obtained from the transaction, they scour the web and find personally identifiable information somewhere - an employer's site, a site belonging to a non-profit organization where they may volunteer, etc.
Now the unhappy member posts the link to the information, revealing the member's identity to everyone on the board. Yes, it was on the internet. But it was only by virtue of the "private" transaction with one person that the member could be connected to the information on the web. Is that fair?
Look, just because it can be done does not make it right.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
As for whether I "like" either party in this dispute, I will need to hear more about their political beliefs before I can tell what kind of people they are. But any "like" or "dislike" of the individual has no bearing on the morality of this situation.
<< <i>As for whether I "like" either party in this dispute, I will need to hear more about their political beliefs before I can tell what kind of people they are. >>
You decide whether or not you like someone based on their political beliefs?
Russ, NCNE