> I too follow these same on line safety rules of only posting what I am comfortable having the whole world know...

And that is an approach that some people have to the internet.
But other people don't have that approach to the internet.
Why?
Because some people are afraid of other people.
Over time they come to trust the people at psychcentral and so they share intimate thoughts, feelings, concerns etc with people from psychcentral where they are NOT willing for the whole world to know.
If people changed their policy into a policy of not posting anything they weren't comfortable having the whole world knowing then they would be alone with those intimate thoughts, feelings, concerns etc.
Part of the value of sites such as this is that people can post those intimate thoughts, feelings, concerns etc in a *relatively* safe environment.
It isn't (it can't be) *perfectly* safe
But that is how a lot of people use sites like this.
To share the things that they can't share with anyone IRL.
Thus to those people...
When people repost their posts outside psychcentral they feel like their trust in people from psychcentral has been betrayed.
Kind of like how in IRL you could tell something to your friend under the understanding that they wouldn't tell anyone else and then your friend goes and tells other people.
I think that there are a fair few people who think that reposting psychcentral posts outside psychcentral is kind of betraying trust like that.

I guess that there are two (at least) different conceptions of psychcentral.

When those conceptions aren't explicit then someone who wouldn't post anything they aren't comfortable having the whole world know can't understand why people are upset about posts being duplicated off the boards. The person isn't being a hypocrite or anything because they would be accepting if other people posted their posts off psychcentral.

So no malevolent intent...

But I think it is important to know that some people do indeed see psychcentral as a place where they can post their 'secrets' to their friends.

It isn't that one conception is right and another conception is wrong... It is about understanding that different people are coming from different places... And that is required *before* people can respect those differences...