Eek. I hadn't thought of something like that. I might post something like that for either the sheer humor or the sheer fear! :eek:

Name calling? Insults? Why don't you say what you mean? Come on, Man up! What do you think I mean, that I'm not saying?

oh, i was just asking a general question! you didn;t think i was talking to YOU did you???

I'd never say never--but it would have to be under extremely unusual circumstances.

No. Not a kid.

A simple "no" would have been enough. Why throw in the judgmental crap?

You think I'm a kid?

I was talking about myself, no one else.
If you read something into it, that is you, deal with it.

Nah, its in Private for a reason :)

Would you ever relay what someone said to you via PM to another party via PM? :p

If the PM was abusive and I thought it would be beneficial to all to share or be the only way to get it stopped, I might. But mostly I ignore anything unpleasant. I would never reveal personal details given in a PM, and go the moderator route first, but I think it's a form of bullying to be abusive in a PM. If you believe it's OK to say what you want to say, say it in public. Don't hide behind closed doors. And when people try to do that, then it's OK to rat them out if that appears to be a positive way forward

/gospel according to St. monster.

Hell yea, I would and have. But only in the cases where people have lied on the general board and then pm'd something different. I don't like people who play all nicey and then pm something where they are attempting to spank you verbally.

Only to my attorney or hit man.

Delete, ignore, all better.
Trying to dissuade opponents and/or rally support, offstage, is so pathetic.

I got the idea there was a lot of that nonsense back when Mar*ch*o was on the board.

The example that glatt posted looked like a pretty obvious troll to me, so I might've posted it in that case, because, well, who cares about trolls?

In general, though, I wouldn't, unless I had the person's permission, and even then only if it was something that wasn't inherently private in nature -- like if I was just chatting with a friend through PMs and they happened to say something funny about, say, Pirates of the Caribbean, I might ask if I could share it with the rest of the class. If they had something funny to say about, say, TheMercenary*, though, that would be a bad thing to post.

On one forum where I used to post, we had some controversy over this issue. Someone got a PM from another user saying that he was using his presence on the forum to gather quotes and examples for an "expose" he was planning to write about the depravity and excesses of liberals on the internet. The person who received the PM posted it without saying who the author was, on the theory that we should know that our words might be taken out of context. I'm not sure if she did the right thing or not, but I guess I'd lean towards yes -- the person who claimed to be writing the book was being a troll.

*nothing personal, dude.

I'm guessing you've never heard of the policy of praising in public and punishing in private, neh? You strike me much more strongly as a public humiliator, for effect.

I sent someone a PM the other day asking why they've decided to antagonise me and they've yet to respond to it. I'm thinking about posting the contents of my pm here in the hope of getting some sense out of the situation.