Outing another poster's RL identity should always be a banning offence. Discuss.

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I genuinely cannot think of a legitimate reason to out someone else on MN. Therefore any posters who put up material or links which have the effect of allowing readers to put a real life identity to another MNer should be banned unless the identified MNer explicitly confirms that they do not mind.

Anyone think of any reasons why this policy shouldn't be adopted immediately?

"MInd you all sorts of fuckers on here try to link back to other user names I have had since then" - I think that tendency, which I have often seen, is awful; a passive-aggressive, if not downright aggressive, attack used by some MNers to get at other posters. For some of us, it's more intimidating than for others. Some of us have more to lose; others simply don't care because they have little to lose from being identified.