Questions about forum and mods.

The fact is that you can be traced via your IP number if the board stores such numbers when people log in and comment. You needn't worry, however, because your right to privacy is enshrined in law and I doubt the forum operators would release your IP number unless you had perfomed a criminal act or defamed anyone by name and they were approached by lawyers seeking to find your identity. If you are really concerned about your privacy you can use a free Virtual Private Network (VPN) which tunnels your internet traffic to make your IP impossible to trace. There are many good ones out there. One of the best for free use is "CyberGhost". Just be aware that if you use a free VPN then your net speed will slow down by at least a third. The good thing is you can switch the VPN on and off at the press of a screen switch. Just Google "How do Virtual Private Networks work?".

Hi @Atalanta,

Welcome to the forums. It's Snowflake, one of the moderators here. The moderators here on the forum are professional counsellors however this is a peer support environment that is safe, anonymous and your privacy is respected, unless others on the forum or moderators are concerned that you may be at risk to yourself or others.

You can read more about this at the link here which talks more in detail about the community guidelines.

At times we do encourage people to contact services such as Lifeline as a support for a service where they can talk to someone that is available 24 hours/7days a week.

I hope that you find the support you are seeking here and look forward to more of your contributions.

Fully agree, Snowflake...but I think Atalanta is more worried about having divulged information that he thinks might be used against him. Your post is very reassuring in this regard. Also from what I have seen of this forum the moderators would act immediately to edit a post that contained damaging information. So Atalanta just needs to have reaffirmed that he is safe here and that this forum is about helping and nurturing (which it clearly is), not outing people if they make angry posts.

Hi @Atalanta,

I am sorry in my previous reply I also forgot to mention that if you wanted to have any posts edited or removed you could also email any request to team@saneforums.org and the moderators would be happy to assist you with this.

If we were worried about someone's safety, such as if you intended to suicide we would do our best to get supports in place and follow up with you and contact emergency services if we had contact details. Please feel free to send an email if you need any further clarification about this.

Is there a reason that you are asking these questions? Are you feeling safe tonight?