Reply To: Responsibility and the Jewish Blogger

Just to be clear – none of the original post was addressed to any individual or about any particular blog or website.

I deliberately used the word “Jewish” and not “frum” because these are concerns regardless of where one sees ones self in the broad spectrum of Jewish society.

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shlishi–

Some of the original post was written in response to things posted on this site, but quite a bit wasn’t. There are many Jewish bloggers who post on other sites and/or maintain their own blogs and this was addressed to those, too.

The “loshon hora” reference was not about one anonymous poster regarding another, but rather discussion of “real world” people.

As you said, “Loshon Hora” and “malbin pnai chavero berabim” may well be different if the target’s real name is unknown (IMO, anyway – I’m not a rov). As others have pointed out though, it may not be an unknown target, since some people may know who a SN belongs to – certainly on this site the moderators may know it.

ZeesKite–

Thank you.

Many other people have written similar posts previously – this isn’t the first such post, just the most recent.

Moderator-80–

Thank you.

I respectfully disagree.

am yisrael chai–

Thank you.

mw13–

We certainly see cases where every single word is part of the cheshbon – Yosef lost years of his life for every “avdecha avinu” he allowed, Yaakov lost years because of his “me’at vera’im” response.

600kilobear returns–

True.

The original post included things I haven’t seen on this site.