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I don't care what happens to other people's information, but a moderator should show consistency in how they handle things regardless, therefore (with my own interests in mind) I believe personal information containing real names, addresses and phone numbers of either a member here or their family members should be immediately deleted.

Of course, that's assuming they will admit the info is theirs. As Pink has proven, that's not always going to be case. Therefore, I believe any claim from the person doing the doxing that the info belongs to a member here (or their family) should be reason enough to delete it immediately. 

It's a fair opinion.  But as you believe there to be no actual rule on this currently, wouldn't it be an abuse of power to act on it?  That's like banning someone for calling someone else a faggot, then justifying it as "there was no rule about calling people faggots, so I used my judgment". 

'Whatever they feel is the correct step in a potentially hazardous situation' would be the goal. 'Whatever the fuck they want' would mean they pose a risk of ruining the usability of the forum. Is deleting a misdeed like dox ruining the usability of the forum?

Otherwise, a terms of service should be cut in stone.

So basically you're saying that because there is no clear-cut rule, mods can do whatever the fuck they want.

See above.

Open thread poll. List of options, comment your answer. Rules out puppets and proxies.

Poll's don't work in SC.

Last time we did that on an outsourced polling system, Tryptamine and, whatsherface were voted the most liked members by landslides greater than the poll's participants.

Spatial Mind: "When I brought up the Pink incident to TC a few weeks ago. It had to do with how he removes doxes due to favoritism."
That's how you decided to spin it without being armed with the entire story. Despite this "intuition" of yours, that doesn't make it so.

Spatial Mind: "You brought up my opinion on the pink incident today, now you have TC catching his ass."
...more like being stuck explaining something to you for the umpteenth time.

Rasserenata: "That is when being able to return a post back to its original state would be a handy tool."
It would, but I don't see that coming around any time soon, nor the other improvements I've requested.

It'd certainly give me a boost of confidence to know that I could undo any mistakes that might be potentially made.

Rasserenata: "Deleting dox is by no means terrible, unless you are of a wonky moral compass."
This place isn't really about a moral compass, nor should it be. At most it should be a lawfully driven compass, as at least with that there is consistency.

Reaper: "My argument is that there is no rule regarding how it's handled."
There was an agreed upon consensus, and just like then that can be changed.

There should be as little moderation here as possible, and that was the accepted compromise.

SensitiveSoul: "It surprises me how many want to be moderator."
I think it's about the example that's set. Back when TK was modding it sounded like people weren't as excited to fill those shoes.

Reaper: "I believe personal information containing real names, addresses and phone numbers of either a member here or their family members should be immediately deleted."
Seriously, lets have a topic about this. People from the sounds of it are more sensitive than they used to be about this sort of thing, so maybe it'll poll in your favor.

Edit: Nevermind, found it.

Rasserenata: "Otherwise, a terms of service should be cut in stone."
That would be nice, but until then we have forum politics solely. Instead of cutting it in stone, we're stuck scribbling it onto paper.

I am the sort that prefers to not leave it solely up to myself. At least with group-driven agreements over policy it's not all on me.

Only traces? Tune your detector ;)

In my defense. I was in the midst of calibrating it when I made the comment

"I'm as deeply offended as I can be that no one ever considers me for a mod!"

My highly tuned bullshit detector picked up traces of sarcasm in this comment ;)