And I want to know why you aren't banned.
That is all I care about.
Tom isn't banned because he didn't break the rules/do enough to warrant a ban in the mod teams view
1) Your name was not attached to the article when he posted it. He actually purposefully left it out. We also felt that there was no intention to dox you by going through a convoluted series of assumptions that people
might A) google the article, B) find a name attached to the article, C) automatically conclude it was you that wrote it. We felt it was far more likely he was just trying to expose your hypocrisy. Nevertheless, we took the path of least resistance and deleted the thread and warned tom to not post it again, just to be on the safe side. Giving people warnings is not a rarity around these parts. We even give them for rule 12b stuff. If things are a grey area but we don't feel someone has gone explicitly over the line, they may get a warning. Tom got a warning, the matter was addressed.
2) You keep claiming tom has "admitted" that he has passed the info around to at least two other people.. however you have not once presented us with any evidence of this. What he
has said is that two other people know about it. This could refer to rana and myself, the two mods that initially handled the post in question. It could also refer to someone that sent the article to HIM and someone else, which he really wouldn't be at fault for. He could also be talking about 1 person that sent it to him...and myself the mod, as he knows 100% that I saw it given I pm'd him about it. Fourth, it could be that two other people know about it independently.
3) You have remarked that he has been trying to "trick you into consent" into allowing him to post the article. This is also, not against the rules. We have people all the time ask if they can post a pm someone sent them. The whole point is he is asking for permission. You have said no and Tom has respected that. It's not against the rules for him to ask though.
4) You talk about tom referencing the article in its vague form. The board merely knowing of the existence of an article does not break our rules. Nothing can be gleaned from the information that "one time darla wrote an article about hillary clinton." It's not like that really narrowed down the field.