Nordling said:
Could you point out where anyone attacked the OP? No one did. What a few of us did do is suggest vetting anonymous posters, a healthy amount of skepticism. No one's saying the OP is wrong or not telling the truth, but since another person's job was at stake, I believe one should be damn sure that what you think you see is true.
If you had a neighbor suddenly accuse you of child abuse, wouldn't you want other people to ask for very good evidence before you were crucified, lost your job, family, everything? This is not an indictment of the OP, it's a suggestion that we ask for better evidence before we jump the shark.
Well perceptions matter and the fact the OP said he regretted posting this important information should be enough to give you pause.
I'd point out we are all anonymous poster here, me, you even Amber. Virtually no one use there real name on the forum. So what do you mean by vetting anonymous posters? Would you like to start volunteer to start the process? Just give me your name and address and I happily run a background check, and post the results. If you do it I'll do the same for myself.
As Lily Evans pointed the only reason the model name was given out because several asked for it.
But if you'd like specific examples of attack here are two.
From Isabella
Although the OP has apologised for making this his first post... I'm still unsure as to why. If the girl is now banned, why did you feel the need to tell us all this? You were not a member of this forum, these aren't people you have regular conversations with. I can understand wanting to tell a group of friends about this, but a random group of strangers? How does this benefit you or us?
Now all of these things can be explained so I'm not saying the OP is a predator preying on new models, or a troll who's trying to wind us up/upset us and making some fake chat log, I'm just saying that the OP could be. This conversation he had with this model which is barely even that could have come from something related in the room. Yes is does sound fucking bad. But it also may not be what it seems and it did come from a member who we know nothing about and could potentially be pretty shady. Or he could be a really nice guy genuinely concerned about the welfare of this child who for some reason felt the need to spread the word. My point is we do not know.
Well first of all Trustme has been member of the forum since Nov 11, which is longer than Isabella and myself. He is member of MFC for 5 years is longer than almost all of us. So calling him not a member is factually inaccurate. But the rest of basically is saying I don't know if he is lying but I have my suspicious. As for how this benefit us, well seeing how MFC response to this sounds pretty relevant, cause I sure don't want to be anyway associated with porn site that tolerate child porn. The underlying assumption is if Trustme had 10,000 posts it would somehow make his word more reliable.
From Nordling
think we all know about the Lounges here, both members and models. But I really think you should reveal who you really are...simply because any story is worthless unless we can vet the source...since we have no way of vetting the alleged model, who from the current record is non-existent.
Regardless of why you named yourself "Trustme," here, I can only speak for myself, but if I were going to join a forum specifically to report something this serious, I would choose a less troublesome name, and I would not choose an avatar featuring a Simpson character in a satanic costume.
All harmless, I'm sure, but since you won't let us vet you directly (check your profile, etc), how can we take you or anything you say seriously? Anyone can join any forum and tell any wild story they choose; frankly, I'm surprised how many took your story at faith alone.
I do hope you'll reconsider, but I hope more that you're telling the truth, and if so, that you've interpreted things correctly--otherwise, you may have damaged someone's career for no good reason.
You accuse him, wrongly I'd add, of picking him his user name for this topic. The underlying assumption is he joined the forum to tell a wild story. This seems to be an attack by any common sense definition. Again spending 5 seconds to look at the join date, instead of equating 4 post to be an newbie troll would have told you were wrong about his motivates for joining.
Oh and I actually learned about searching for tags from the lounge, by his post I didn't know that. You know what they say about assumptions.
As far as what attack looks like, yes I am attacking you and other members of the ACF Welcome Wagon, for being absurdly hard on new/low post count posters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Wagon