Topic: If you had an Encyclopedia Dramatica page, would you consider suing them for slander and libel?
Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #44,731
Serious discussion.
kook !!Phkn/3Gic joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 50 seconds later[^] [v] #590,652
Of course not. I would be delighted
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 21 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[^] [v] #590,653
@OP
It's only slander or libel if you can prove it isn't true.
squeegee joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 46 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[^] [v] #590,655
idk, depends on who i am. who are you, OP?
brie !uXWPG0MygI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,656
What if you had an entire wiki?
kook !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,659
@previous (brie !uXWPG0MygI)
That would be so amazing
Metæ joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,662
It's kind of a paradox because the people with ED pages are also the least likely to be able to get their shit together enough to sue someone.
brie !uXWPG0MygI replied with this 11 years ago, 36 seconds later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,664
kook !!Phkn/3Gic replied with this 11 years ago, 13 seconds later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,665
@590,662 (Metæ)
Lol so true
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 12 minutes later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,675
@590,662 (Metæ)
You have no idea what I am capable of.
brie !uXWPG0MygI replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 22 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,678
@previous (A)
Whom would you sue, each author of the article, the wikimedia foundation, ED itself, all of the above? Whom?!
Syntax joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,679
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,681
@590,653 (C)
this
@590,662 (Metæ)
that
@590,675 (A)
lol okay how drunk and angry are you right now?
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 10 minutes later, 37 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #590,686
Any court would clearly see it as deformation of character and award the plaintiff 100,000 dollars per day.
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