montanas turned over a new leaf!!

True Lamby, anyone can dial any number, they don’t need to find one on here, but the abusers on here who have a grudge or who think they’ll get a kick ringing someone on here who they don’t like, they might well do as I said, and that’s who were talking about, not nuisance callers at large.

You are looking at it from the point of view that PB should have known it was a joke/wind-up. That may be so, as he was following the thread, but we can’t rely on that always being the case.

If PB came across on a number on a thread after a number of posts, should he read through the entire thing to try to determine if it was given in jest? I don’t think so. Delete on sight is the best policy.

I would learn my lesson too, and change my number same as you, however, I do expect the chat guides to protect me, and everyone else, regardless of wether I didn’t adhere to the site safety guidelines. PB and others who monitor the site do have certain obligations to protect people as far as possible. As users themselves, I would bet money that they themselves have ignored the guidlines themselves at some time, and done something foolish.

Lamby, you and I don’t pc, or email each other, we are just what you might call casual JC friends, but you know as well as me that we do build up trusts with some people over time, sometimes to the extent of divulging personal information. Sometimes that friendship can end, and so too the trust, the latter can be betrayed.

PB described some examples of how users had been foolish in divulging personal information, and real harm resulted. I know it was their own fault for ignoring the safety guidelines, but as long as people do this, and make no mistake, they will do it, a guide or host must allways err on the side of caution when it comes to issues of privacy and safety. They can’t judge each case on it’s merits when it comes to things like phone numbers being posted, no matter the context, and no matter wether the numbers even appear to be fake.

I agree someone can ask for something to be deleted, but having just done that myself, it appears it can take as long as 48 hours, by that time, someone could have had an abusive caller, or a stranger turning up on their doorstep. Delete all numbers on sight I say, along with any addresses no matter how obviously fake or genuine they may appear.

That *Pricko does go on a bit doesnt he….

keep it clean now ffs I heard Libra was coming on this thread for a look :D