Cogitation wrote:One of the things that we want to make clear in this rule is that posting someone else's personally-identifiable information (PII) is always unacceptable. Even if Mr. Nation posts his own PII somewhere on the NationStates forums, that does NOT grant YOU license to then repost that same PII yourself. The most that YOU may do is link (NOT quote) the NationStates forum post in question so that, Mr. Nation later deems it necessary, Mr. Nation can then edit or delete. Every user needs to remain in control of their own privacy; that user sharing something does NOT make it open season for it to be spread around beyond that user's control.
This sort of comes as worrying. I had to look up PII to see what counts. On Wiki, I know, not the best source, the list includes things like face (the How Do You Look thread), date of birth ("Today is X's birthday, so z"), and screen name/login (Would it then be against the rules for players to say x is a puppet of y or that z maintains a deviantart page about his/her nation called k?). It also stated some things that may potentially count, such as age, occupation, education, gender, race, and state/city/country of residence, things that many players know about and come up often (ex. "x is an archaeologist," "yes, but you are from Finland," or "q doesn't have much time for NS during the week because he has uni.").
All those things seem reasonable and accepted in these cases (not to say all examples of PII are, just the ones mentioned), so it concerns me that those may become punishable. Or perhaps I only think they are acceptable because they are so common currently on the NS forums.
EDIT: I know (assume?) these would only he considered mild if made against the rules, but a concern is that these build up and some players never see the unofficial warnings (I cannot remember if you receive a TG for those).