WeJo revealing IP info = fair tactic?

They neither revealed the person's IP# nor his usual/real name. There have been plenty of people here who disagree with the Brojos and JK, but they did not need to take pot shots from behind anonymous handles. It's their board and it's perfectly okay for them to out agenda-driven asshole pussies if they want to. This isn't a democracy, it's a dictatorship. If you don't like it, feel free to take your business elsewhere or even put up your own site where you and your anon buddies can continue your crusade to LET THE "TRUTH" BE KNOWN about the EVIL BroJos.

Did Wejo reveal anyone's IP address or identity? I'm pretty sure he said he WOULDN'T do that, not that he WOULD.

WHOIS wrote:

Did Wejo reveal anyone's IP address or identity? I'm pretty sure he said he WOULDN'T do that, not that he WOULD.

Ip addresses are logged everytime someone posts. We have never said that they would not be revealed. With one flip of the switch we could reveal all of the ip addresses of everypost on these boards. We may require registration in the future. In fact our board guidelines include the following:

6) You acknowledge that your identity is not a secret whether or not you reveal your name in your posts. Your IP address is tracked. As a result others, including LetsRun.com, may be able to figure out who you are and thus your identity may be revealed to others.

Now to the subject at hand. There was a post on the boards. I read it, and just said off the top of my head to my roommates "I'll bet you that's ___ the same guy who started the thread "Letsrun.com destroying the sport."" Sure enough the ip addresses matched. It was almost comical. So I posted that I figured this out. I did not reveal the person's name. I did post what city this person is in (according to his ip address). Perhaps, I shouldn't have done this. But I did it just to acknowledge to him that I was aware of what he was doing and to acknowledge my detective work. Malmo who has been harassed by this person in the past read my post, figured it was the same guy, and then revealed this person's name. I have removed malmo's post because I didn't want this person's identity revealed (even though we say in our TOS that posters should assume they are not anonymous).

As for Runnersworld.com's lawyers name and phone number being revealed on our boards (I think this is what someone is talking about when they mention the melanie strong controversy, but I'm not sure): 1) We never posted this information someone on our boards did 2) we removed this info from our boards 3) anyone with a brain knowing his name and law firm could figure out his firm's phone number, so is it really didn't matter if we removed it or not, but we did 4) if someone wants to call the law firm and criticize them for their tactics that is well within their rights.

And yes we are the Gestapo here. Silencing dissent. Give me a break. We are constantly criticized on our own boards. It comes with the territory. We have been called sexist, homophobic, destroyers of the sport, and those post were all allowed.