Comment by rsynnott
6 months ago
But if you think that knowing about the basilisk is harmful to people who don't know about it, surely you are taking it at least somewhat seriously?
6 months ago
But if you think that knowing about the basilisk is harmful to people who don't know about it, surely you are taking it at least somewhat seriously?
Not necessarily, it also comes from taking your users seriously before you even know what they were saying.
Consider: If you trust the people on your forum to be sensible, and one day one of your users writes:
then the sensible choice is to (1) stop reading immediately, don't even find out what's after the ellipsis, (2) delete/hide/otherwise remove their message, and (3) put in a general statement of "don't write things that you think are dangerous for people to know".