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Pastimes : WARNING- have you been warned by SI? Let's talk
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To: Graystone who wrote (614)3/11/1998 5:37:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (3) of 1614
 
Oooh...DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!

&#147What we need is a thread where disciplinary action that SI undertakes can be published&#133SI can send a copy of the JillKill to that thread&#133&#148

Whilst the idea is appreciated, for SI to mark out a disciplinary area could and would, IMO, invite a lot of unnecessary legal headaches&#151as in "Hey, you exposed me to public ridicule so I'll sue (despite the truth of my stupidity)."

All too often you get these idiots who have mistakenly replaced their Mommy-Mommy&#153 with a lawyer. Now maybe their chance of winning is small, but legal headaches often spell h-e-a-d-a-c-h-e more than they spell legal. Let's view an example:

Poster says (paraphrased): "I'm gonna sue SI because somebody is posting to me"
Message 3294122

Brad of SI says (paraphrased): "Dude, chill out"
Message 3295641

Ass (or elk in this case) says (paraphrased): "No, I paid for SI, I own you, and I prefer to threaten you with legal BS":
Message 3298771
Message 3295741

Brad says (paraphrased): "Fine. Make my job harder so you don't get your feathers ruffled"
Message 3295981

Yes, you heard right. You can join a public forum and then threaten to sue for getting a response (why join?). Mind you, SI probably has good legal counsel so it's not much of a threat anyway. But it's the complete nuisance factor of having to jump through the juris-hoops which is plain silly and unwarranted.

I do, however, hate to criticize a plan without offering an alternate idea. So I'll think on it a bit (hopefully we all will).

-MrB
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