yea Im with the others what you are asking for could possibly leave each other open to things like stalking, reading a post that may to one person sound suicidal even if its not, so lets contact that persons police and doctors. so many ways this can go wrong.

even in suicidal postings its up to each person.

lets put it this way theres a reason why there is a rule of no suicidal postings now. when I first came here there was so many postings of people saying they were going to dot dot dot. then after many others begged and conjoled and hugged and discussed the suicidal person disclosed they really were not suicidal they just wanted people to care.

bottom line is that if a person is seriously suicidal one they don't need online help they need real off the computer help of their own doctors. not the doctors and therapists that we tell them about, and two those that I know who have been seriously suicidal don't go on line and talk about being suicidal, expecting the online group to talk them out of it. they plan silently all the while not letting on anything is wrong then when they have their plan in place they do it when theres no one to stop them.

nothing we online can say or do is going to stop that. evidence of both of these is that there have been psych central members who we are notified after the fact are gone.

my point if a person really wants to commit suicide they are going to do it. providing a way to locate that member and report them for help isn't going to do anything but make people more watchful of what they post and instill fear about stalking and so on.