On 10/10/07, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
...and the positive outcome to "silly kid posts hoax suicide note on
the internet" is "silly kid gets terrified by large scary policemen
and decides not to do it again".
Even better- if people generally know what happens when they do hoaxes, then
they're less likely to do posts for 'humor' reasons; so it pays to advertise
the policy somewhat.
I'd say they're more likely to do hoaxes for "humor" reasons and
use
someone else's name and address.
Even in the case of a probable hoax -
at least, one not a de-facto obvious joke, though
god knows how some
of our more myopic users could recognise one - passing it through
channels is probably valid.
I think so too.
So what about someone who writes what is probably a fictional murder
story, but might actually be a confession? Should the police be
contacted in that instance? IIRC, the consensus here is that calling
the police then constitutes cyberstalking.