"But putting people at serious risk of harm through domestic violence is seriously different. It's a massive safety issue. The Relationships board, given the nature of things that are posted there, should not be allowed to be linked to." But the only people putting people at risk of serious harm (assuming of course that the threads are even real) is the poster posting about their life on the Internet.
The relationships board is public. anyone even the abuser can read it. When will people realise this?
I was recognised in a shop many, many years ago by a mn'er who merely recognised me from fairly inocuous but still relatively identifiable information I had posted on here e.g. Advice on schools in an area I lived in, the fact I am VI and have a guide dog and a chilD. I'm not bothered really. I don't have anything to hide on here. My eXH and my DP all know my MN username and I have no inclination to change it because I don't use MN to slag off my partner or my ex or my family. It's not rocket science.
People are responsible for what they post on public Internet forums.
If people really want to be unidentifiable then don't post information that identifies you, your partner, your children, your domestic situation, on public forums. It being reproduced in the Daily mail or elsewhere (and let's be honest you have no idea whether people are e.g. Sharing your posts to Facebook, Twitter, their mates, isn't putting you any more at risk than publishing it on MN.
In fact, I would say that people are more at risk by posting information which identifies them on here than it being reproduced elsewhere. Because that daily mail article will only catch people's attention for one day at most, and then it will be superseded by some other tripe. Whereas your post about your abusive husband/arsehole mil/shit sex life might run into a thousand posts and pop up in active time and time and time again for months, where anyone is free to find it.