February 10th, 2011
I feel like I should weigh in on this since it has become an ongoing discussion. Tanya already got to this before I did, so I decided to let her handle it and not intervene. Seeing as how this is turning into a discussion, I feel like mentioning my thoughts.
First, I don't ever want to lay smackdown on any user who brings something seemingly important like this to our attention. Anytime that any user finds something that they think we should know about, they should feel comfortable sharing it.
With that said, posting this thread was seriously the wrong way to handle it. It should have been sent via PM to an administrator or at least a moderator and the fact that it wasn't really makes my mod senses tingle. Linking to a page that is attempting serious reputation harm is completely and totally unacceptable. We just about have a zero tolerance policy for such things.
While OP has an established account with a history of activity on this forum, that still doesn't rule out the possibility that OP is actually the author of the post. Even still, it also doesn't rule out OP and the author being different people, but OP is trying to make a bait post to stir up controversy.
OP, you are not in any trouble now, but please remember to keep matters like this private and consider this to be a verbal warning.
Tanya, my two cents is that we give OP a chance to ask any questions about what we've said and then delete this thread. Even assuming purely innocent intentions from OP, this isn't the type of spectacle we should be having.
And Tanya, while this isn't related to this thread, in my opinion you should be concerned about dealing with this type of thing. The accusations made against you are incredibly serious and people doing research on you might decide to pass you up if they see the types of accusations that are being made against you.
I feel like I should weigh in on this since it has become an ongoing discussion. Tanya already got to this before I did, so I decided to let her handle it and not intervene. Seeing as how this is turning into a discussion, I feel like mentioning my thoughts.
First, I don't ever want to lay smackdown on any user who brings something seemingly important like this to our attention. Anytime that any user finds something that they think we should know about, they should feel comfortable sharing it.
With that said, posting this thread was seriously the wrong way to handle it. It should have been sent via PM to an administrator or at least a moderator and the fact that it wasn't really makes my mod senses tingle. Linking to a page that is attempting serious reputation harm is completely and totally unacceptable. We just about have a zero tolerance policy for such things.
While OP has an established account with a history of activity on this forum, that still doesn't rule out the possibility that OP is actually the author of the post. Even still, it also doesn't rule out OP and the author being different people, but OP is trying to make a bait post to stir up controversy.
OP, you are not in any trouble now, but please remember to keep matters like this private and consider this to be a verbal warning.
Tanya, my two cents is that we give OP a chance to ask any questions about what we've said and then delete this thread. Even assuming purely innocent intentions from OP, this isn't the type of spectacle we should be having.
And Tanya, while this isn't related to this thread, in my opinion you should be concerned about dealing with this type of thing. The accusations made against you are incredibly serious and people doing research on you might decide to pass you up if they see the types of accusations that are being made against you.