A Question of M-J Forum Ethics... - Motorcycle-Journal Forums

B-Rex · 03-08-2008, 12:02 AM

I've been watching a thread on here where a new fellow was talking about a bit of street dragracing and the fact that his bike didn't perform very well. Predictably, he was flacked fairly briskly by several forum members for squidlike behavior. Unquestionably, the flackers were on the side of right and intended to save this fellow some grief or worse.

Now the intention of this fellow's posting was a request for information regarding why his bike performed poorly and he was essentially asking for a solution to the "problem". Well there actually is a very good and inexpensive solution to his problem and, with a bit of research on his part he could find the information easily online.

My questions on the M-J ethics are:

1) Is it ethical to provide this person with the information?
Or, is it ethical to withhold the information "for his own good?
2) If it IS ethical to withhold the information in this case, how do you decide when you should or should not share such information?

I'm very curious as to how some of you handle this sort of thing here.

Thanks,

B-Rex