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Originally Posted by wazz
Not quite sure what the yellow is for but I don't expect to get talked to like this (without a clear joking tone, which is not present here) by anyone on 2p2, let alone a quasi-mod. Reel it in please.
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So I'll ask the same question again. If someone threatens me or insults me or whatever, via PM, because of some social convention, you're not allowed to post it? Clearly the facility is there to provide the option of exchanging confidential information, but that's on the sender, not the receiver.
You can report abusive or threatening PMs to mods. That is not the same as posting them in threads.
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As well as that, I run a 2p2 football team, and there's no need for all the details of who's playing where and when and so on to be made public. That doesn't mean it would cause any of us harm if these details were made public, but we keep the messages private because there's no point in flooding the forums with them. People actually complain when their subforums get clogged up with stuff that could get done by PM.
You missed the part about the norm where if all parties to the PM are fine with publishing them then there is no reason not to publish them. I find if funny that you get your nickers in a twist about rough language on the internet but don't see how publishing information someone meant to be private is acceptable.
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I'm just saying that it feels like a weird taboo. I don't see why someone shouldn't be able to post a message like the one OP posted, whether it was from a mod or not. If there are confidential details in there, money, contact details, or whatever, then you'd be breaking sender's confidence in publicizing, and that's rightly seen as wrong, but there's just no reason to say 'ooh, you reposted a pm? that's BAAAD' without thinking about it at all.
You've shared your feelings and you've been educated on the reasons for the taboo. What you do with that info is up to you. But you calling something dumb isn't going to save you from the consequences of breaking the taboo. Particularly if the people enforcing the taboo don't think it's dumb.