LJ Etiquette

[evildrem]

Okay my darlings, I have a question of etiquette for you. I apologise if this questions seems a little opaque but I know some of you who read this in RL and I'm trying to be tactful..

If you read something in an LJ of another person which happens to be about a friend of yours and which you think is:
a) derogatory and unfair and;
b) is not factually correct;

would it be okay to tell the friend about whom the comment has been made, about the post?

Both the owner of the LJ and the friend mentioned in the LJ post are people I know in RL.

I should also add that the person who owns the LJ and who has made the comment thinks I hate them and complained when I friended their LJ. I de-friended but I do still read their LJ because it has a kind of train-wreck fascination. For the record I don't actually hate them, I just find them somewhat delusional and there is a bit of a personality clash.

Normally I'd ignore this type of thing but the comments made are particularly unfair in this case and I'm irritated but wary of causing even more trouble.

Any comments, suggestions or thoughts welcome.

[Sub-question: Am I bad person for reading the public LJ of someone who asked me to de-friend them?]

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

If it were about me (which I know it isn't) I would prefer you not tell me, because my feelings wouldn't be helped by knowing I was being slagged off. However, I *would* want you to defend me - if not in her LJ, in personal email to her.

We had a situation like this a couple of years ago, someone spreading a lie, and the more people said to us "ooh, I heard about that" the worse we felt. The few people who told the person spreading it that they knew it wasn't true were greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[evildrem.livejournal.com]

..I think I as a person involved would want to know, but equally I would be hurt. I would normally post in the person's LJ about this but all that has hapenned in the past when this has been done is the author of the LJ goes off on a mass hissy fit and it causes more trouble then before.

After some consideration and discussion with some friends I've decided to have a word with the ex of the friend who was talking to the author of the LJ and suggest she stops telling people lies which then get added to and posted on the internet.

Then I'll wait and see what happens.

I hate these situations.