Hello readership.
We have a very open policy towards posting here at Opine. Only the profane comments are deleted. Unfortunately from time to time we find that we need to take extra measures with certain personalities who get so emotionally involved in the discussion that they become a problem.
We openly encourage discussion on the subject matter at hand, and encourage disagreement. However, one of our more recognized commenters, John Hosty-Grinnell, has been engaging in some very open cyber-stalking, harassment, and phishing on our forum. For the sake of the readership, it is regrettably time to play Cyber-Nanny: He is banned from posting on Opine. If you are interested in seeing this behavior for yourself, start here.
It is regrettable, Mr Hosty has been a very open advocate on our forums. But understand this decision was reached after many weeks of observing him persevere in this behavior through many requests to focus on the subject material instead.
Seems like there are a lot of personal attacks in that exchange. What's phishing?
ReplyDeletePersonal attacks are typical chatter, and all to often real criticism are mislabeled as a personal attack. Overall, it would be good to police for personal attacks but enforcing such a standard is near impossible.
ReplyDeleteBut phishing, that is a bigger problem. The phrase comes from a combination of the words "phreaking" and "fishing". Its fishing for -- trying to tease out -- personal information over the internet. It can be a way to fraudulently access credit card information, usernames and passwords, or find out personal information for real life stalking/bullying.
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ReplyDeleteDo you guys have contact info listed that I'm not seeing? If so, then I'm sorry about threadjacking.
ReplyDeleteHave you heard about this case of a woman who was denied access to her partner as she lay dying in a hospital?
I've heard of several such cases, and they are all regrettable.
ReplyDeleteI'm an avid supporter of visitation rights, and those need to be addressed on a much larger theatre then married people. Oddly enough, being married does not guarantee visitation rights these days either.
Hospitals are private entities, and they make their own policies. They should be dealt with one at a time, and in a way that promotes them to recognize the mutual trust placed between any two or more designated adults.
Unfortunately, that won't happen with neutering marriage.
bravo opine. bravo.
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