On 5/30/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't notice this e-mail before; in response, I'll just note that perhaps if posters to this list focused on honest and intelligent dialogue, rather than advancing foaming-at-the-mouth "women who dress in scanty clothes are just asking to be raped" arguments, (not naming names), they'd have a better chance of not looking like rabid fools.
With that and your clear disregard for practical reality beyond to push your own polarizing agendas and POV, I will bow out, but I would like an apology from you which I don't expect shall be forthcoming. Fools are the ones who manipulate others intentionally to advance their own aims, trampling them in the process. Perhaps your pending RFAR for trying to play the seemingly usual games will teach you apparently needed humility. Perhaps not.
Equating my point that, "If people leave virtual bread crumbs all over the internet that show who they are and where they live, people will be expected to put 2 and 2 together, and the subject should not be surprised or upset when this happens," to "Obviously, you're saying the same thing as women deserved to be raped for dressing in sexy apparel," is filthy and disgusting.
No, I clearly said that if you're so frakking concerned about your privacy, to protect your "IRL" interests so that you can do harm and play mad power games on Wikipedia, cover your ass well, and don't play a screaming and crying game when you screwed up and didn't realize that you left the equivalent of a digital sandwich board on your chest that says, "I live here! HERE!! And this is my NAME!" Wikipedia's privacy policy protects you from Wikipedia/ians disclosing info from you on-Wiki, or from information (IPs, etc.) that you gave to Wikipedia.
If you posted with the same handle hypothetically as "Jayjg" and said, "Richmond ROCKS! So does Temple Such and Such, and I like eating Salmon!" on some message board or blog comment, and someone Googles your name, and starts seeing Easter Eggs all over, it's not Wikipedia's job to enforce a cover up of the fact that 'someone' named Jayjg comes possibly from a given town, goes to a given Temple, and enjoys eating salmon.
If people are that worried about it, use a different username on-Wiki that has nothing to do with you, don't say squat about who you are, what you do for a living, where you live, and be mindful if you edit articles related to you and yours to play fairly and by the rules, to not piss off people and get them searching for you. That's what I said. Basically, "Don't be an idiot, and then blame others for your own actions and their consequences."
You don't need to respond to this; your smoke and mirrors games don't matter.
Regards, Joe http://www.joeszilagyi.com