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I don't think I was asking for roll calls to be banned or anything; I was questioning if they might be a bad idea because of how easy it makes folks to find out more about you. (not that they can't do it other ways by combing each of your posts, searching other sites, putting parts of pms together with other public information, etc. Roll call just might make this easier.)
And I thought that groups might make an effort at warning people that there had been problems with people crossing the lines in regard to other people's privacy.
I get the impression that this has happened more than once or twice, but maybe I'm wrong.
If membership verification serves a valuable service, maybe it would seem better to go to a confirmed list by user name. You verify with the moderator, and he or she can maintain a list of verified users just by "screen name" in the forum.
I realize that this doesn't help in cases of moderators who don't respect privacy, but it would be a way that verifying membership could be emphasized to new members, but they would feel comfortable to be more guarded with other information.
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