To the best of my recollection, we are talking about a case where a couple of people contributed or conveyed information under their own real names, so the responsibility for those assertions rested solidly with them,
until such time as the moderators of this Forum usurped that responsibility.
Lay reasoning would probably guess that the moderators of this Forum were on safer legal ground
before doing that than they became
after doing that.
Of course there are standards of conduct, but up until recently they have been solidly grounded in global community standards, enforced by peer pressure and near universal assent, not some peculiar code of silence of which the average citizen of the world could hardly guess the (ir)rationale, enforced by a privileged cabal.
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