On 10/10/07, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Andrew Gray shimgray@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.