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[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Yes, let's talk about outing. I bet I've spent more time with Paigow over the past four years than anybody else on this board. She's had numerous opportunities to out people to me, either deliberately or inadvertently. She has never provided with me enough information about any one poster that I could figure out who that person was.

However, there are other people on this board, one in particular (who has not, to my knowledge been banned) who has outed so many people to me both deliberately and inadvertently that a bunch of people on this board would crap their pants if I made a list. A few other posters have inadvertently outed people to me too. None of them have been banned. I've accidentally provided potentially outable information in private forums, and I haven't been banned.

Everybody has accidentally dropped info about another poster to someone else on im or in person. If we banned everybody who did that, this board would be more of a graveyard than it already is. Before we accuse Paigow of outing people, or of creating a viable threat of outing, I'd like to know what she's posted on a public forum that could actually lead to a real outing.

What exactly is the definition of outing here?