Anandtech forum user purportedly has Fallout 3, answers Qs

Ausir said:
If a guy at my work bragged about a 50' OLED TV, am I allowed to flip through the mail on his desk to find a home address?
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All of this guy's personal info was easily googlable, it's hardly an appropriate metaphore.
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I can get many users passwords by opening their top desk drawer and reading the post-it. It's easily findable. Does it make it right? If looking for, then posting someone's personal information (regardless of how you found it) on the internet without their permission doesn't strike you as wrong, then congratulations, you're the creepy guy in the story.
 
Ausir said:
Top desk drawer is hardly a public place, unlike a public website.
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The point is that the people who posted his info went out of their way to gather the information and posted it together in a public place with malicious intent. That's something that well-adjusted people don't do.
 
Phancypants said:
I can get many users passwords by opening their top desk drawer and reading the post-it. It's easily findable. Does it make it right? If looking for, then posting someone's personal information (regardless of how you found it) on the internet without their permission doesn't strike you as wrong, then congratulations, you're the creepy guy in the story.
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You're a bit dense, huh?

Who put that guy's personal information in a public place? He did or - at least - it was already available. Google searching for available information does not make you a creepy guy.
 
Brother None said:
Phancypants said:
I can get many users passwords by opening their top desk drawer and reading the post-it. It's easily findable. Does it make it right? If looking for, then posting someone's personal information (regardless of how you found it) on the internet without their permission doesn't strike you as wrong, then congratulations, you're the creepy guy in the story.
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You're a bit dense, huh?

Who put that guy's personal information in a public place? He did or - at least - it was already available. Google searching for available information does not make you a creepy guy.
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Right, fine, I'm dense, no point persuing the discussion any further.

Editing out any insults btw, sorry for bringing it down to name-calling.
 
fak that website was mass edited 12 hours ago and i just got back from out of town, hopefully yall copy/pasted most of the q&a.
 
Im calling bs too but...

A possible scenario:

Say I worked on Fallout 3 and my little brother was so excited for it. I might sneak a copy or make a copy of the game and say he can only play it while i was there, and take the copy with me when i left. So he couldnt make more screen shots or videos.

But probably not, im calling massive stinky bs on all that.
 
Humpsalot said:
fak that website was mass edited 12 hours ago and i just got back from out of town, hopefully yall copy/pasted most of the q&a.
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No. Why? There was nothing interesting in there.
 
If it wasn't interesting then why did you make a news post about it?
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Not really a serious question, considering the Fallout 3 devblogs.
Actually there's lots of un-interesting news posts, but I know that only happens because there are slow news weeks.
 
PaladinHeart said:
If it wasn't interesting then why did you make a news post about it?
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God f'ing dammit HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION?!

We do not filter news except for the bare minimum. It's not our job to decide what news is interesting or not, just a bare minimum of "newsworthy" (the BethBlog dev profiles have shifted from newsworthy to not-newsworthy, by the way). We have intelligent readers (I hope) they can decide for themselves if they care.
 
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