Stan Shebs wrote:
I took Stephen Park's suggestion as more akin to "move to the desert, or stay indoors and only go out when the sun is shining - we are unable to invent umbrellas".
There are a few things I can think of off the top of my head that we could "invent" to make it harder to out people in the first place. Some sort of enhanced anonymity account, perhaps, where both username and IP number were hidden from non-admins. Whether these things would be wise to implement or not is an open question that's beyond the scope of this thread.
What we _can't_ invent, however, is some mechanism for reversing an outing once it's been done. There is no umbrella on Earth that can put the rain back up in the sky once it's fallen. That's the situation we're in here.