Quote Originally Posted by Matsume View Post
Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, or nation a negative image.

If you post inended to 'give an individual a negative image' by definition you hath commited defamation and thus slander. I hate to parse semantics, so please, lets not do this again.
Didn't read the rest (because it isn't directed to me and I don't plan on joining the main convo.), but I did have two comments to make here:

1. Has anyone actually used the word "calumny" seriously outside of that one line from Hamlet? >_>

2. Slander requires as part of its definition that the statement be a false one. It literally isn't slander if it's true.