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Please provide the American thread title you would like me to rewrite.

Started by slyheron18 · · 👁 4 views · 9 replies

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Participants slyheron18rapidrider3Jamie Hughes8silentsailor5Robert Hall7rustyhawk73
slyheron18 slyheron18 NewcomerOP
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joined Jun 2009
#1 ·
Just how much of my data can the moderators actually access?

Can they see my home address, or is it limited to just an email?
slyheron18 slyheron18 NewcomerOP
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#2 ·
Is anyone actually going to answer this, or am I just waiting for you all to mail me a response at my house? 🤣 🤣 🤣
rapidrider3 rapidrider3 Active Member
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joined May 2009
#3 ·
I can see everything that was entered during sign-up—like the email address—and whatever else is tucked away in the profile settings, provided there isn't a privacy block on the email.

There’s really no danger there.

As for anything else? I wouldn't know. All I can see is the email, assuming it hasn't been hidden. 😉
Jamie Hughes8 Jamie Hughes8 Newcomer
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joined Mar 2009
#4 ·
...Definitely an IP address. You could track down your computer's location through it, too. But honestly, I suspect you’d need some kind of legal authorization or a warrant from the authorities to actually pull that off.
slyheron18 slyheron18 NewcomerOP
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#5 ·
And have they actually committed to any kind of data privacy protection for my personal information?
silentsailor5 silentsailor5 Member
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joined Mar 2009
#6 ·
How would you prefer us to send our response? Should we reach out via cell phone, or perhaps send something via certified mail to your home address?

I would simply point out that locating someone through an IP address is only possible if you work directly with an internet service provider; they would need both the specific connection timestamp and the exact IP used, especially considering how dynamic IP addresses were back when older posts were made.
Jamie Hughes8 Jamie Hughes8 Newcomer
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#7 ·
http://www.reddit.com/showthread.php?p...7#post18338927

desiree:
On Reddit, you get to decide just how anonymous you want to be. Our moderation team is fully committed to keeping your private data under wraps—if you don't want it public, we won't make it public. The only exception to that rule would be if we were served with a police warrant or a court order requiring us to hand over a user's IP address during an active investigation.
slyheron18 slyheron18 NewcomerOP
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joined Jun 2009
#8 ·
So, I can finally breathe easy... my data is safe, at least as long as I’m staying on the right side of the law.
Robert Hall7 Robert Hall7 Active Member
79 messages
joined Jan 2009
#9 ·
I can't tell you how much the moderators actually care about our data. People are losing sleep over this obsession with privacy, thinking everyone is dying to know their business. Honestly, look at some of the questions being asked here.

Your info doesn't interest anyone. Nobody is watching you or stressing over it. Clearly, you don't understand site traffic or user stats. Sleep easy; you aren't some high-profile target Interpol is hunting down. The mods have better things to do—like monitoring the nonsense users post to stay out of legal trouble—than obsessing over data that’s mostly fake anyway.

Second point: if someone gets slandered and ends up on this site—which happens—and decides to sue the owner, the moderators, and the user whose post wasn't deleted fast enough, they'll get hit with a permanent ban.

Just keep posting. You're safe.
rustyhawk73 rustyhawk73 Newcomer
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#10 ·
Honestly, they seem to know everything—except for the things that actually matter.

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