The Water Cooler section is understood to be less professionally focused, but it is not a complete free-for-all.
We also have been working with Chad on some ideas to improve the forum, including some that are perrenial suggestions. We will get back to you on some of that once we have a better grip on the technical issues and costs invovled.
For now, congratulations to numi, itera, and S2000magician!
My understanding though, the moderator are supposed to respect the privacy and will IP the poster only if he/she does something outrageous, and not for the sake of learning his/her identity. Am I correct?
Correct, that was my intention, though I did leave a little ambiguity just for comic value. Presumably the site’s tech guy could figure out physical locations from IP addresses, but the four of us outside of Chad don’t have access to that info.
I wasn’t aware I was communicating with such BSDs in which people actually care about their true identity, it’s like the old grandmother figure who is scared of being raped.