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Originally Posted by spectre
There are no "innocent victims" in anything that went on over there.
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Who implied there were? I took total responsibility for my actions yet see no one else doing the same.
When I'm wrong, silly me, I say I'm wrong. I have fully acknowledged that and apologized openly for it.
I'm not going to keep going over the same pothole.
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Originally Posted by Sharon
On a much more mundane concern of mine - I saw in one of the threads that an administrator at the time had used his/her privileges to check on a user to find out if they had returned under a different username. Apparently they did so by looking at the user's email address.
This worries me. Assuming the premise that anyone could gain administrator access, some stalker could use this to locate my email address / IP address. My email address happens to contain my full name (and my IP address could be used to trace my location), so in theory they could find out where I live etc. I have suffered from problems with stalkers in real life and I really don't need some internet psycho tracking me down especially with some of the kink I've posted here on TFP.
I have no problem with the administrators of this forum having access to that data, but doesn't the impact change considerably on CA where anyone can be admin?
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I think there's an option where your email can be hidden or you can check off that you don't wish to receive any. Worst case scenario, you set up a hotmail or gmail account strictly for the BS stuff.
My email addresses used were my regular ones. Since the namechange was temporary and wasn't a major concern regarding identity, the dual names were found because the only difference in the two was the ending digit (108 and 602 with the same name)
Had I wanted to be completely anonymous(and I've done this for other forums), I've set up a dummy email with a fake real name. It's also good for all the junkmail and spam that results sometimes from registering on sites(some sell that info).
The other consideration is that most people if not all would not abuse the temporary power they've acquired. But that's not a given and you take your chances no matter what you do.