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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alphastream" data-source="post: 6209752" data-attributes="member: 11365">I'm going to make two posts that will likely be unpopular, but I feel they need to be said. First, when it comes to sharing confidential information, it is to the benefit of our industry that its members conduct themselves well. We don't want a dirty industry. we want a clean one. We don't want mistrust, we want trust.I am really surprised that both Chris (quoted above) and Dale (elsewhere in the thread) seem to think it is okay to disclose and continue to discuss aspects of confidential discussions. If you were under an NDA, then you can't disclose something that isn't public. At all. Ever. You can't even confirm rumors. You can only state what is widely known by the public, because at that point you aren't disclosing anything. Even if you weren't under an NDA, you were presumably aware that you were part of confidential discussions. They confided in you, trusting that you would not spread that information. In both situations, you can't just send a private message to Morrus to see if you all know the same information. That isn't okay, because it is still disclosing. At each point where there is a question about whether information is public, the correct process is to go to Wizards and ask them. Morrus shouldn't be naming Mearls, and the thread should likely be deleted. If the information really is so old that it originated before the playtest was public, and perhaps two Gen Cons ago, then it seems very likely to not be reliable. Whether it is going to end up true or not, industry members should know the process - talk to Wizards and work with them to resolve any issue before spreading rumors.Our hobby is a fragile one and could use better business practices so that we have more trust between companies, not less. Information leaks like this one give the larger companies (Wizards, Paizo, etc.) more reasons to mistrust small publishers. I hope that Chris Dias, Dale McCoy/Jon Brazer, and other publishers will be more careful with confidential information in the future.</blockquote>

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