I'm divided on this one and until recently would always have said yes to naming and shaming.
On a forum I use ( not ours) there has been a post condemning a certain truckstop. The title of the thread was enough to lose them business alone.
I had recently been to the Magistrates Court as a witness to help this Truckstop win an appeal for a liquer licence. I knew the claims were untrue and after 3 pages of posts criticising the owners, and defending posts from the owners, it turned out the lorry driver in question who made the original post was just haveing a bad day. He arrived 15 minutes after closing time, was offered a sandwich but chose to be rude.
The damage had already been done in the 3 weeks this thread was active.
There have also been a couple of court cases in recent years that show clearly what we all thought was acceptable to post on the internet certainly isn't, and ISP's can succesfully be asked to remove it.
If it was my decision it would be no naming and shaming unless prefixed by 'In my honest opinion'!
Pat
Last edited by: pda on Thu 1 Apr 10 at 06:13
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