ThomasW

Interesting thing I have just noticed - when you're leaving a facebook group which I believe has UK set as location, it offers you to report the group and UK Online Safety Act is mentioned there.

I think a few minutes is a massive underestimation. This law should have never come into effect in a form like this. I have no idea if there was any public consultation, but it all reminds me a bit of ACTA in 2012. Granted I don't exactly remember what the deal was with that, but I remember that popular websites in Poland have decided to modify their websites for 24hrs to protest. A lot of the websites have put some kind of a spotlight effect on top of them to basically obscure their content and had an information that this is how the web may end up looking like if ACTA comes into effect. I believe English wikipedia, Reddit and Mozilla have temporarily shut down to protest American SOPA and PIPA law (I have no clue what that was). IMO This is what should have been done to show it may kill the "small" web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement#Signatures_and_ratifications

I think GDPR didn't require any kind of risk assessment or other BS of similar kind, did it? The whole issue here is... It's doable, but why would a hobbyist, who runs the forum for fun and doesn't get anything out of it, do it. This will do f all in regards to protecting minors. If they really wanted to do something, they should have either ban "social media" entirely or make it 18+ and make sure that the companies, who run those, enforce it. They have both the money and technology to do it. Could such restrictions be bypassed? Yes, they could, but it would have more impact than requiring an average Joe, running a forum with maybe not even one minor user registered, to jump through hoops.

I'll be honest I don't really know what the whole thing is about, but based on experience with all those kind of regulations, the small ones are the ones that suffer the most. Companies like FB etc. have lawyers to deal with that and tools already in place that may just need some tweaking. For any small website owner it's just pain in the ass that simply wasn't needed. I don't know where I read this, but someone said something along those lines "You want to target Big Companies... you will end up with just Big Companies". This is obviously massive exaggeration, but it will 100% affect the number of independent small websites/communities which could be created, but won't.

I don't know if it's just the way I see this, but it seems initially this thread was more like "Not a big deal" and now it's more like "Yeah, this is annoying". :ROFLMAO:

I think the main issue with the whole thing is: It's as usual people, who have no clue about the internet, deciding how the internet should look like or "be run". It's just creating unnecessary obligations such as doing this risk assessment when we know it won't change anything, because those, which didn't care before, still won't care and those, who did care, already knew what to do.

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[mention=564]BDouglas[/mention] If you could do the same for me, I would appreciate it, just in case I need to buy another one in the future. Thanks.

Forums are privately owned websites (most of them at least I believe). This means whoever runs the forum can decide to revoke your right to access their website for whatever reason they want. This may sound harsh, but that's the truth. With great power comes great responsibility. A good leader will not ban you from their website for politely expressing a counter-opinion BUT they could. Therefore, there is no point in having a publicly available moderation log, because it does not matter whether users think you are right or wrong, you can do what you want. The logs are there so whoever is in charge can see who did what and then decide whether it was a good decision or not. People either like you, your forum and the way you run it or they do not. Having publicly available moderation logs will not affect that, or at least in my opinion never in a good way. Whether you have them available for users to see or not will not give you any "trust points".

I can confirm that I bought bare XenForo license from [mention=564]BDouglas[/mention] and the license has been transferred to my account. The payment has been split into 2 equal ones, one half was sent first, then the license has been transferred and after that I have sent the rest of the money.

Sorry, maybe I don't understand but what is the reason for replying here instead of a DM?

I thought you would be able to get the validation token regardless of whether the license has expired or not - I may be wrong on this one.

I believe I found about this place in XF forums. Either way, it was when I was searching for a place to buy 2nd hand license.

Do you mean me or the author of the post? I cannot see a DM from you.

[mention=564]BDouglas[/mention] check your inbox when you have a moment please