Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-29923354-20160416234559/@comment-29923354-20160417161845

Captain Barracuda wrote: Hello there,

I will take a look into that matter. That said however, I am not certain that much can be done to the user at the origin of this. Let me explain:

While slandering and harassing people here is not acceptable, I am not sure we can provide much assistance in the way of punishment to something that happened in the context of a private message (PM). The reasons being that actually getting proof of the content of the PM or of it's context is pretty much impossible. It is possible for example that the user requested information about users here, therefore it is possible that said descriiptions were solicited rather than given without demand. Additonally, a case of "User A said X to B in PM" cannot be verified, especially if user A does not collaborate and or denies involvement. Furthermore, there is no rules about saying things of other people or sharing opinions in PM. If said list surfaced in the main channel, then yes, actions would be taken. However in the realm of PM there is effectively nothing we can do.

To sum up: I will try and find out who is at the origin of this, but I am afraid that the best (or worst) I can do to the user is to offer a stern talk about being cautious about who they are passing opinions to because then the receiver could go on to pass a false judgement. Honestly, it's just a relief hearing someone is at least gonna look into it