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A valid line of reasoning of course.
I'm not much of a disciplinarian personally, but in this instance I felt somewhat responsible because I'd asked the OP to paste the output of a particular command line. I didn't say "make sure your account name is actually your real name - first, middle, and last", nor did I suggest they should also be in their profile directory structure when they executed the command (thus making the username part of the prompt), nor did I tell them to screenshot the entire window, thus revealing the output, and the prompt, and their full name :)
But, as Tews pointed out, there's an obligation on me, as the one who supposedly has a little bit more experience than the OP, to protect them from themselves, especially when my instructions may have inadvertantly led them to do something slightly silly. His name was rather unique too - not exactly John Smith, as Antman pointed out.
I had a little look and it turns out there's an addendum to the rules which discourages or even prohibits the use of full real names:
https://www.sevenforums.com/general-d...html#post23230
All combined, I felt it was best to flag the post and hence to let moderators ex3rcise their superior judgement. That's why they get the big bucks
If you think I was wrong, I'm totally open to considering a different viewpoint.
Snuffy has a valid point. As long as the poster follows the given guidelines, it should be up to him to decide if the post should stay or be deleted.
However, every rule has exceptions. As Tews said earlier, somebody has to protect some of these n00bs from themselves. First line of protection is of course admins and mods, but not too far behind comes the army of more advanced members.
That last said on my mind I think H2SO4 did absolutely the right thing by reporting the post, especially because he feels he's partially responsible.
Kari
Maybe even more dangerous, the full phone number...
Kari
Edit: Phone number removed by Airbot.
In a couple of weeks we might just (hope not) see more of this as new members come on board. It's not really that people are stupid or idiots it is just they sometime have the tendency not to use "COMMON SENSE." :)