Hi, I'm just trying to find out if there's an etiquette guide regarding user's player SNs on this site.

e.g.:

I noticed one person's 2p2 username is the same as a SN on a site I play on, and I have reason to believe based on what he says his game type is that it is this player. Would it be inappropriate to post in a thread asking if he is that player? Would it be inappropriate to PM him asking if he is that player?

What if I were to share my SN with someone in a PM and they shared it with friends or in a thread on here? Is it just an unspoken rule that you just don't do that?

thx

You can post or share your own SN if you wish. It is considered bad form to post hand histories identifying other players without a good reason, or to call out players based on their pokersite SNs.

^^I'd add to that that if everyone knows who they are (for instance, everyone knows that TooCuriousso1 is TCfromUB at Stars), it's fine.

Also, think of it this way. You just move up into TheDefiniteArticle's games. You have like 25 hands on Villain A, and post a hand you play against him. TDA has 5000 hands on the same villain, half a page of notes, and a wall of notecaddy tendencies. You post your read on the villain and ask "how was my decision on the turn?" Due to the small sample, your read is quite different than TDA's. You'd much prefer to have the villain's SN be hidden in your post (replace villain names with position option), because the decision you made was based on your 25-hand based read. Everyone colors their advice based on what they know now, and it is hard to ignore things the OP didn't know. Thus, the advice is much better if you don't bring in the biases. Every hand you post and analyze, you want to consider only what the hero knew at the time. This is why you should post a hand up to a key decision point, lay out what you knew, and start the discussion.

As a side benefit, the forums don't get cluttered up with flame fights when someone gets described as "an unthinking LAGtard who doesn't have a fold button".

good point. thx for your response.