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Re: Reputation and private messages
personal messages and rep comments are there so people can have side discussions and send short notes that the rest of the forum wouldnt necessarily be interested in
if someone is using them to attack, insult or berate you, I think it perfectly within your rights to make those comments public - just because someone has abused or insulted you in private that doesnt oblige you to keep it a secret
dont say anything to anyone that you do not want repeated in public, whether in private, on the phone, in a PM or rep comment, email...
you never know when it will come back to haunt you.
If someone explicity says something like, 'Please keep this to yourself - and divulges personal information about themselves, thats different - they have asked you to protect private information (for exaple, we are having a party for Dwain, or my grandfather had a drinking problem... that sort of thing).'
but that does not apply if they are 'privately' insulting, attacking or abusing you.
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