Obviously, I always honour requests to remove posts which clearly identify a poster's real life identity if it's causing them problems, but even when people post up lots of personal information in k&s, it's rare to be able to connect that content with a real life living person - even for a mod who can access a bit more 'back end' stuff.
Got this in return:
I've checked. He is registered under a silly name - let's call him 'sludgeface' - with an address of [email protected]. He has made no posts.
I post on another board where quite a number of posters have been stalked by someone with a grudge, including employers contacted etc, I think you'd be surprised how easy it can be for someone to follow the trail of clues left by people on forums.
But I'm curious if this actually qualifies as we hold nothing more than his email address (and no IP address either as he registered a few years back).
No, it doesn't. My martial arts org has had to deal with this stuff over the last year with some mad overreaching of certain people regarding what information can be stored and who should be allowed to see it. Certain people were claiming that records of payments made to them by the org were personal data that should be protected (not the address, email, bank account, or anything like that, just the name and the amount paid to them). They were wrong.
“The only info I have is your email address. If you don’t want me to have it, stop sending me emails. Your account is now deleted”.
“Fuck off and stop being silly, yours sincerely, Editor”
'and now kindly delete this email and any record of the email address from your system'
