Naming People

[admin]

To Everyone

I have deleted a thread which used the names of people, and quoted actual letters sent to members.

This is against the terms and conditions of the forum, so please keep any discussions you might like to have on this private, using the private messaging system on the forum.

Please do not use actual people's names.

Discussion of the increase in fee proposal is obviously an emotive subject, and people will want to talk about it. We cannot however go down the slippery slope of naming or shaming people. It is unprofessional and unacceptable.

[Cherrypicker999]

Naming People

Does that preclude the poster removing his name and that of the person who sent it to him and he stating - sent from editor of PJ.

No names are then disclosed.

How would you handle this?

It seems to me that the editor was wrong to send this email - discussing third parties to third parties. Then, she is not a pharmacist.

The data-protection act and libel come to mind.

[Linnear]

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I would have said that calling the person "Editor of the PJ" is hardly anonymising it.

Sorry, under rules that have now been placed on the forum your post would be pulled.

Am I right Admin?

[admin]

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I would have said that calling the person "Editor of the PJ" is hardly anonymising it.

Sorry, under rules that have now been placed on the forum your post would be pulled.

Am I right Admin?

Yes correct. You can use phrases like "the editor of a well known pharmaceutical publication", or something like that, but you cannot put any post up where someone might read it and recognise themselves - wether it be a patient, another pharmacist or a member of the council, PJ staff etc etc

All this will achieve is trouble for yourself and the forum, so I or one of the moderators will remove such posts.

[Jeff]

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Yes correct. You can use phrases like "the editor of a well known pharmaceutical publication", or something like that, but you cannot put any post up where someone might read it and recognise themselves - wether it be a patient, another pharmacist or a member of the council, PJ staff etc etc

All this will achieve is trouble for yourself and the forum, so I or one of the moderators will remove such posts.

So phrases like "the well known pharmacist with only one bloody kidney" are not allowed then ;-)

Jeff

[Pharmanaut]

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So phrases like "the well known pharmacist with only one bloody kidney" are not allowed then ;-)

Jeff

Perhaps I shouldn't have started the 'Lisa' thread either.

[Cherrypicker999]

Naming People

"editor of a well known pharmaceutical publication"

How many are there? It is obvious who that would be.

Are you saying we are not allowed to quote what was published in the comic?


What I stated is not libel, it's her own words.

How can we discuss what is written then?

[Trebor88]

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Are we allowed to discuss pronouncements of the Council? Or is that another infringements of the rules because we all know who the council memebers are?

[admin]

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Are you two joined at the hip or the same person? It's very interesting how as soon as I put a post up you both log on within 2 minutes of each other.

Why is it neither of you want to put this stuff in the private pharmacist section where the public can't read it?

We haven't had any problems discussing most topics on here before, because people stick to the terms and conditions of the forum.

[Cherrypicker999]

Naming People

Admin

We are not the same people.

You can check if we are the same people by checking our IP addresses.
This forum package logs IP addresses.
You can do a trace to see where the IP address is located. There is lots of free software on the web to locate it.

Unless by co-incidence he lives in the same house as me (which is unlikely)
you can rest assured we are not the same.

Are you saying if some views are similar, we should not post them?
I certainly don't tell Trebor mint what to post.

There are others who agree.

Somehow I sense censorship.
Is free speech banned?

[admin]

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Is free speech banned - of course not. It was just an observation. Both log on together, both view the same threads at the same time, both have the same service provider. When one is viewing a thread the other is posting, when the other is posting the first one is viewing. Just seems interesting thats all.

[Trebor88]

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What are the rules? Is this a public forum or a forum for pharmacists?

[Trebor88]

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Admin, I thought the rules are never to reveal personal details... why are you giving our details out?

[Jeff]

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Are we allowed to discuss pronouncements of the Council?

Are they worth discussing?

Or is that another infringements of the rules because we all know who the council members are?

Do we.

How many people even know how many members of council there are and how many could they name without looking it up?

Jeff

[Cherrypicker999]

Naming People

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