01-17-2007 17:24
Yes, I admit it. I provide logs to validate policy enforcement, so users can be assured I do not enforce arbitrarily. I and RP Moderators trade notes on enforcement and incidents, a necessary tool when you have users that will make different claims to separate people, or claim to be ignorant of a rule they were informed by another, or run to Daddy to get permission that Mommy didn't give them.

It seems to me that the Disclosure article grants a protection to people who deal recklessly with their own privacy, something no other online community would consider reasonable -- if you can't keep your own secrets, who can you can you blame? Once it's out there, it's out there, and if you have to face the consequence to figure it out, then you live and you learn.

It additionally protects people who use confidences maliciously, to spread deception or slander, something the Big Six doesn't include any protection against. You can't sling slurs at ppl to their faces, but Community Standards permit character assassination in whispers.