…may indeed break your bones, but making unsubstantiated allegations on a web forum will probably cost you tens of thousands of pounds.
An article in The Guardian draws attention to the dangers of treating the web like a playground. If you publish something on a forum, it's going to stay there, so you'd better be prepared to back it up with hard evidence. Alternatively, you could post to a well-moderated site such as PCAdvisor.co.uk or, better still, like my old mum always says: "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."
Incidentally, all PC Advisor readers are brilliant people of excellent character.
Comments
Matt Egan said: I couldnt agree more which is why we had to delete the very funny name - sorry In print you are legally responsible for anything that goes in the book even if youre merely repeating a third-partys allegation As the host of a forum we have to take a similar approach deleting anything defamatory or libellous as quickly as possible Fortunately the vast majority of people who use PCAdvisorcouk do so for the right reasons
Floppy Norris said: On a lot of web forums you can use any name you choose as illustrated here some you dont even need to register for Should the people running the forums be held responsible for the thoughts of some babbling idiot I think not But maybe it is time to tighten up the registration processes of some more vocal sites or at the very least keep a very close eye on the content published By the way did you know that insert name of famous celebrity is gayoops sorry