Dont Show Personal Information in a Scam Report

If a person is innocent, or there is just a misunderstanding, I feel that personal information (such as full name and address etc) should not be shown and should be hidden because if one looks a name up, and sees "[insert name here] SCAMMED ME" with their address and full name inside the scam report, it basically goes against Sythe's rule of not posting personal information online as well as potentially tarnish a person's reputation in real life. Even if the title is changed to something like "resolved" the meat of a scam report could still potentially tarnish a person's reputation who did nothing wrong. Thoughts?

edit: here's an example that lead me to this suggestion: http://www.sythe.org/report-scammer-archive/1622622-scammer-sam-sohrabpour.html

 

Fully support this as long as the person is innocent or it's a misunderstanding, otherwise I see no problem with it being allowed.

 

Yeah or is there's no proof, like my edit above. And I don't want to hear about this "right to vanish" crap because if a person did nothing wrong, he or she should be allowed to erase personal info from scam reports.

 

If someone is innocent then I agree they should have the right to have their details removed.


Support.

 

Wouldn't fall under the clause in question here. I replaced his real life name with his sythe username as it would make more sense for recording purposes. I did however leave his name in a deleted post for whenever it's required.

 

Support for this. I also think that the title of all resolved scam reports should be changed because it can taint a users reputation.

 

So an innocent person can have their personal info hidden from a scam report?

 

Depends on what you consider personal information, but yes.

 

Support. Why tarnish someones name for something that they didn't even do?

 

Personal information as in full name, address, telephone number etc. I thought this wasn't possible because of the "right to vanish" clause. I guess I'm misinterpreting the clause.

 

The right to vanish is more or less regarding posts made by the user by themselves. On the odd occasion, some users decide to leave Sythe and ask to have everything deleted so their web history doesn't remain. The right to vanish clause focuses on these case and makes it clear it's not the staffs liability to remove this information.

With regards to a scam report, that's information made by another user. If you check the Official Sythe.org rules, you can see that other members posting different members personal information leads to the information being deleted and the member receiving a ban.

Obviously in the case of a Scam Report their may be legitimate reasoning to post this information, which is why the ban would be withheld, but the information still deleted.

 

The alternative is whitewashing the report though, and having it heavily edited by mods.

^ Like, consider if a report was made against you that was complete nonsense. Instead of having a mod doctor the original report with their own text, someone can just read the comments by the moderator below. I suppose another alternative is deleting the report, but then there is a whole host of issues with that as well.

 

Support. Could we have this extended to RuneScape usernames due to the risk of bans etc?

 

If requested by someone who makes a report and accidentally left their RSN visible, we would hide that piece of the content in the report from the public eye. I've done it a few times already.

 

Definitely don't delete the reports, they need to be there for reference.

Editing out irl details of false reports should already happen upon request imo. If the report was false, then the user is not guilty. R2P among other goldsellers have requested false reports be edited as it can harm their business. I don't see why users can't request the same.

 

Many people don't have the time to ready the original report with comments from a moderator. But because Ghast has clarified that personal information can be hidden in scam reports, this can be closed. It was a misunderstanding of the "right to vanish" clause on my part.

 

If a person is accused of scamming/whatever and the information turns out to be false or it does not lead to a ban for other reasons, we will soft-delete the thread on request of either party.
The content will remain visible for moderators at all times, so it's still possible for moderators to dig up the report's content.

If a person is proven to be a scammer however, the information will remain to be public.

Hope this clears it up.
Suggestion approved as we already do it like this