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First of all, apologies if a different forum would be better for this.
A few years ago now, I became genuine friends (which is very rare for me) with a poster who, for whatever reason, is no longer with us: DM Under The Bridge.
I would, really, really like to reconnect with him, an I am reasonably certain he would be happy to hear from me again. Unfortunately, I never knew enough about him to be able to find him outside this site, which it appears he has not come to since 2015.
Is there ANY way you could help me find him? I don't even know his real name (I do know his profession and home city, but who knows what might've transpired since 2015?).
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(I do know his profession and home city, but who knows what might've transpired since 2015?).
You might get a better response by posting in the "Local Play" forum of Organized Play
Local Play.Use the name of the city and ask if anyone from that city knows who he is.
And honestly?
If any company allowed itself to be social-engineered into disclosing my confidential information to someone, no matter how earnestly they asked, they'd see, at a minimum, a privacy lawsuit, and possibly a large social media protest about potentially assisting identity theft.
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And honestly?
If any company allowed itself to be social-engineered into disclosing my confidential information to someone, no matter how earnestly they asked, they'd see, at a minimum, a privacy lawsuit, and possibly a large social media protest about potentially assisting identity theft.
I obviously wouldn't ask for it if it were anyone other than someone who'd become a personal friend.
Also, what's "social-engineering" got to do with it?
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And honestly?
If any company allowed itself to be social-engineered into disclosing my confidential information to someone, no matter how earnestly they asked, they'd see, at a minimum, a privacy lawsuit, and possibly a large social media protest about potentially assisting identity theft.I obviously wouldn't ask for it if it were anyone other than someone who'd become a personal friend.
Also, what's "social-engineering" got to do with it?
It might be obvious to you that you have good intentions, but for all anyone else knows, you could be a stalker with malicious intent saying that you're personal friends. The horror stories of stalking victims being found over and over again online or in person no matter how many times they move or change contact info are usually a series of stories of how their stalker convinced a third party to give out private info on the premise of a nice sounding story. Hence, social engineering, and the need for companies to actually honor privacy.
You might have more luck asking a Paizo Costumer Service representative to send an email in your regard with your letter attached as plain text.
That might not be a violation of confidentiality so it is possible they could help that way.
Humbly,
Yawar
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That might not be a violation of confidentiality
Yes, absolutely a violation of confidentiality.
A company cannot reveal any information about a customer unless that customer has explicitly given them permission to do so. In some cases, when you join a website, you give the company permission to share your private details when you click the "I agree" button on the terms and conditions. Usually that is only for 3rd party data brokers, and not individual requests for your personal contact information or identifying information.
And if someone asks you to give them personal or contact information about someone else (last name, where they live, where they work, phone number, what days/hours they work, etc) don't do it. You may be putting the other person at risk by giving an ex or a stalker information that can be used to harass or abuse them.
Even if person A asks you for a friend's phone number, the best thing to do is tell person A that you will pass on their contact information to the friend. That way, if your friend actually wants to get in touch with them they can, but if your friend doesn't want any contact, you haven't accidentally revealed sensitive information.
I think that's what YawarFiesta was suggesting - asking customer services to send an email to DM Under The Bridge with the OP's contact details.
Not sure it's really their job though.
Oh, yeah, I see how you could read it that way.
However, Customer Service is just now getting to serious CS emails from July 6. They are literally months behind on their business emails and CS forum posts.
The chance of them actually being able to do private favors for customers is just about zero.
That's why I suggested the Local Play forum, with a post that includes the user name and the city. It's possible that someone from that city would be able to contact them and tell them that I'm Hiding In Your Closet is trying to find out their IRL contact details.