Proboards recently asked us to remove a post on this thread following a complaint from a third party that it constituted ‘harrasment’.
Whilst I don’t personally agree that it did, Proboards is none-the-less the company that allows this forum to operate for us free of charge and as such I have respected their request.
The membership on this forum is reasonably small and lately new membership has been operating very much on a ‘vouch for’ level. Those of you who are registered members here can pretty much discuss absolutely anything you like on any of casual sub-forums (recruitment centre, recuperation lounge and garbage pod) without fear of censorship or cancellation as these are completely non-public. The actual red-dwarf themed forums (Promised Land, Universe and Dimensions) remain public, accessible by anybody and should only really be used to discuss the show.
As you know we did recently have a very distressing post on here in the form of a suicide note, it was very believable and caused a great deal of panic – many of us doing desperate detective work and pouring through pages and pages of chatlogs etc to try and get as much detail about the individual in question so we could try to alert the authorities as to their situation.
As you probably also know, we were able to see another member here log in a couple of days later to read the threads who was using the same IP as the one who left the suicide note. When this was mentioned to them they turned up in the chatroom, at first pretending to be a ‘friend’ of the victim until eventually confessing the whole thing to have been a hoax.
Naturally this individual was then banned on both of their accounts. They have since attempted to sign up with multiple other ones which have been rejected.
It was a very cruel and unpleasant thing to do, it affected some of the members here who have had personal experience of losing people through suicide and that individual will never have their ban lifted. We did also find through more detective work that we are not the only place this individual has done this sort of thing.
Nikki’s post was an attempt at flagging all this up, mostly to make it easier if anyone else encounters this person doing similar and like us starts searching the internet for them. This was the post reported as ‘harrasment’. Again, I don’t think it was anything of the sort, but again I respected Proboards request to remove it.
Nikki has reworded her original post now, once again I do not see anything in it that could in any way constitute harassment however I am going to move it to one of the non-public forums where a) it should be anyway and b) anyone with less than pure motives won’t have to worry about it.
I will however leave this post here to explain the situation and am more than happy to give the names this individual used with us both on the forum and in the chatroom (Phil Martin, Skipper, Bongo, Tim Shaw, Tim Pass, Jape Of The Decade, Queeg3000), since we have retained the fake suicide note, related chatlogs and the IP’s associated with it. None of that will ever be published on here of course, but if this individual does attempt something similar somewhere else then perhaps a cursory search from the next poor sod believing them will lead them here and I’d be happy to advise them.
Apart from that, go back to discussing red dwarf in these themed sub-forums please!