hale_bopp wrote:
When has it been forum rules to stop people posting personal information at their own will?
It isn't. However, not all people have been on the internet for years and years and may have too much trust and too little "street smarts" to appreciate the risk they are taking by posting personal information. Posting phone numbers on WP is particularly bad, as that tells a potential scammer (1) a teenager with Asperger's Syndrome who has been on the site for less than 3 weeks and *may* be easier to fool than the usual NT targets (2) lives at an easily-found address in Florida, and (3) can be contacted at the published number once an appropriate scam has been created.
What jman did was a simple courtesy. Sometimes it's better to take action first and then confirm whether or not it was neccessary after the fact. If Hunterton wants to put the phone number back into the post he can use the edit button, or post it again with a message telling mods not to remove it.
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