I use the word hijacking because of what you said. "I always side with letting people know, even when their client doesn't want them to know." implies you're bypassing the design decisions of other clients on purpose.
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You can’t help but bypass the arbitrary decisions of client developers when their decisions conflict with yours. Otherwise an aristocracy is created.
Yes, in that case I am making the decision for the other client and I think that is the correct decision. As one of the few clients that allows people to report and uses that report information activelly in our user base, the least I can do is to let users that are being reported know that it is happening. Even if their client doesn't want them to know.
By signing a kind 7 that many of your users are unaware is being signed on their behalf?
In a sense, but crafting events specifically to change the behavior of other clients just devolves into antagonism, it doesn't fix anything.