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<blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 7652655" data-attributes="member: 12037"><p>That's incredibly optimistic. The most common response, I've seen, to misapplied outrage is to rationalize the previous outrage.</p><p></p><p>For example, on another website I read, someone outed another person as conning them in a Magic: the Gathering card trade worth about $50. The guy came to the post and professed their innocence, because he was harassed on the website with a barrage of PMs. For defending himself, he was rewarded with another user finding his address and publicly posting it, along with his employer, with threats to call the employer.</p><p></p><p>That's when the original poster came in and said he had accidently typed the name wrong, and this wasn't the guy. It was a different guy with a similar user name. Oops.</p><p></p><p>The harassers' response? The guy deserved it anyway because he came off as a jerk while defending himself. It was his own fault, and he shouldn't have been so mean to them. And, this is a case where the guy didn't even do anything wrong! Luckily he didn't lose his job over it. I've seen that happen, though. I've seen much worse than this, terrible accusations based on no more than some Internet detective work that hurt people. Harassment that leads to people having to change phone numbers because of the barrage of callers day and night. Calls to employers that get people fired. And nobody stops because they apologize. </p><p></p><p>Again, I don't think that will happen in this case. Googling the kid's name doesn't bring up this issue as a top result, so it hopefully won't cost him a future job. But, the business who put this up for the world to see didn't know that. They couldn't guarantee that this wouldn't go viral and mean that any future employer Googling his name didn't see this as the first result in their search, or that someone wouldn't dig up the kid's number and harass his parents into changing their number, or send death threats to his house. They didn't know, but they did it anyway. Without thought.</p><p></p><p>How someone can do something like this and write it off as "This <em>probably</em> won't harm the kid's life or his families much, so its okay" I don't even comprehend. How irresponsible.</p><p></p><p>So if you're wondering why I, and some others, are appalled by this thing, I hope I've given some explanation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThirdWizard, post: 7652655, member: 12037"] That's incredibly optimistic. The most common response, I've seen, to misapplied outrage is to rationalize the previous outrage. For example, on another website I read, someone outed another person as conning them in a Magic: the Gathering card trade worth about $50. The guy came to the post and professed their innocence, because he was harassed on the website with a barrage of PMs. For defending himself, he was rewarded with another user finding his address and publicly posting it, along with his employer, with threats to call the employer. That's when the original poster came in and said he had accidently typed the name wrong, and this wasn't the guy. It was a different guy with a similar user name. Oops. The harassers' response? The guy deserved it anyway because he came off as a jerk while defending himself. It was his own fault, and he shouldn't have been so mean to them. And, this is a case where the guy didn't even do anything wrong! Luckily he didn't lose his job over it. I've seen that happen, though. I've seen much worse than this, terrible accusations based on no more than some Internet detective work that hurt people. Harassment that leads to people having to change phone numbers because of the barrage of callers day and night. Calls to employers that get people fired. And nobody stops because they apologize. Again, I don't think that will happen in this case. Googling the kid's name doesn't bring up this issue as a top result, so it hopefully won't cost him a future job. But, the business who put this up for the world to see didn't know that. They couldn't guarantee that this wouldn't go viral and mean that any future employer Googling his name didn't see this as the first result in their search, or that someone wouldn't dig up the kid's number and harass his parents into changing their number, or send death threats to his house. They didn't know, but they did it anyway. Without thought. How someone can do something like this and write it off as "This [I]probably[/I] won't harm the kid's life or his families much, so its okay" I don't even comprehend. How irresponsible. So if you're wondering why I, and some others, are appalled by this thing, I hope I've given some explanation. [/QUOTE]
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