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well first let's seperate phone number and address from myspace account as I don't see them as the same thing.

If two people agree to use a public site like myspace to meet people they don't know and then allow anyone to post comments on thier profile or attain access to their email (from the profile) I don't think its up to us as moderators to decide that our users should be able to see the link and post on the profile if they choose to. It's her profile and it's myspace's site. You talk about her feelings yet, we have no idea how she feels. Now chances are she wasn't happy, but maybe she would want to see the thread about the date and if she is unhappy with the comments she is free to remove or just restrict posting access. Its not as if she is unable to stop the comments. She can even allow access to only those she invites to her blog. What goes on there, regardless of how tastless it is should be grounds to move threads.

Now the question is should myspace profiles be linked to. Again I can't see one reasonable arguement against doing so. Myspace is a public site where people willing choose to put up a profile with as much or as little information as they choose. In many ways it is like any other website avaiable on the internet and I don't think it should be treated differently.

When this whole putting pics of girls up the initial policy was that if the pics and information was already in the public domain (like myspace) posting it was fine, if it was not in the public domain then it should be removed.

Again since we can only control 2+2 we should only look at what happens on 2+2. In this case we have a poster telling a story of events in his life (fine) and then later linking to a website available to the public as a whole (also fine).

I really don't like the movement I see be taking place where we are going so far out of way to make sure no girl ever gets her feelings hurt that we are pulling the trigger on the slightest thing even though A) the posts are not vulgar, pornographic or otherwise outside the nature of 2+2 posts and B) against the wishes of the majority of our users.

show me a post where someone post a girls number, email, address or private pics and I will say delete and ban. Linking to a myspace account is nowhere near that and since the myspace user has the ability to remedy anything that happens on their profile I don't see it as our job to play knight in shining armor. It's the worst kind of polictical correctness in my opinion.