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I've recently finished watching Game of Thrones and I have to say, I am beyond disappointed with the ending. It's really affected me! :LOL: Now I've just started rewatching The Walking Dead, I've not seen it all before, did watch the first about 4-5 seasons pre-2015 or so but haven't seen any beyond that, so thought I'd start to watch it from the beginning again. I have a few hours shift to work in the morning at my second job, and then back to work for a few days at the beginning of the week, but have Thursday & Friday off again (using up annual leave before end of the financial year!) so it's an exciting time of the year for me lately, with lots of time off work, but not much to do in terms of plans during that time. :P

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Luckily I've never found myself in this kind of situation before, but I'm a fiercely loyal person so it'd certainly be a tricky situation for me. The likely way I'd go is eventually after a couple months "removing" them from the staff team and permissions, mainly for security reasons more than anything, but sending a PM alongside letting them I know that I hope they're well, and they are welcome back on-board the project anytime they return.

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Morning Administrata - happy weekend! Any interesting plans or events for anyone this weekend?

I've personally never felt any need to remove a copyright on any software I've used - most of the software I have used has been free and open source so definitely not in those circumstances, but even if I was paying for a software, I don't see the need to hide the software that I'm using from others, so no need to pay for that kind of upgrade for me. :)

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GDPR was certainly nowhere near as onerous at this has the potential to be, that much is for certain. Agree on the sentiment about it not being necessarily a targeted and effective enough tool to protect minors too. You have to consider that the Online Safety Act doesn't only apply if you have children on your site - even if there are no children are ever present on Administrata, that does not mean it is out of scope. You're absolutely correct in that the main sanctions directly offered by the Online Safety Act are huge fines. Well actually, they aren't huge fines - they're 5%/10% of annual turnover for a website. Huge for Meta or Google, but for Administrata, it'd be a hundred bucks or so I'd imagine. The more worrying thing is the actual sections of the legislation that confer legal responsibilities onto website owners for some "priority illegal content" on their service, as I previously mentioned. This will eventually lead to the possibility of criminal sanctions for individuals who run websites, if a nefarious actor uses their service for a malicious purpose. You're right - the reach of the UK authorities will be limited by the fact that you're Belgian - for example, I don't imagine the Belgian authorities would be quick to agree to any sort of extradition request or anything (and of course, this is an absurdly unlikely scenario), but they could take action such as get UK court orders for ISPs to block access to certain non-compliant websites. Sure - this is an unlikely occurrence, but imagine a scenario (which we all see on true crime TV) where somebody comes to harm as a result of somebody using an online service that I'm personally responsible for for a nefarious purpose. The law has conferred on me a responsibility essentially to "protect" visitors to my website. Now let's say something out of my control but disastrous happens - even if I am able to legally defend myself, what will the court of public opinion, media, newspapers etc do or think? There is too much liability in society in this day. For this reason, am I to ever own a website again that comes into OSA scope, I will 100% complete everything on that OFCOM checklist to protect myself.

Absolutely - the initial reading was definitely (in my view, anyhow) that this was nothing more than a minor inconvenience. Having read a lot more of the detail and OFCOM's expectations, my view has started to change ever so slightly, in the sense that I believe there's been a massive error in not offering exemptions to small websites run by a single "hobbyist" essentially. As you rightly previously stated, crap admins are simply going to either not bother with the requirements, get ChatGPT to write their assessments, or block UK access to their sites. The good admins will already have had consideration of Online Safety and for the most part will have these risk assessments in place informally anyway, asking them to put it onto paper is just causing administrative headache for your regular joe hobbyist. The further problem is that the nominating of a "responsible person" who's duty is to report "priority illegal content" is worrying to me having studied the legislation in further detail. This is because the legislation provides for criminal liability for this "responsible person" for illegal content on the site, in certain circumstances. This could potentially lead to an admin who is perhaps careless, but not necessarily reckless or neglectful (in the legal sense of the word) being held criminally liable for content on their website. I'm also really mindful that the implementation dates of some of the measures of the Online Safety Act have been somewhat rushed, not announced very well and in many respects have not given website owners, especially small websites, enough time to seek the necessary advice, expertise and assistance in order to become compliant. For example, it looks like this guidance and Code of Practice was published in December 2024, with implementation dates set for 16th March - I myself only realised the implementation date was this soon yesterday, so am now in a huge panic knowing that I have the whole of next week assisting the national charity organisation I work for to become compliant with this Act. It's also not been explained to joe public very well that the Online Safety Act brings almost any website that offers service to UK consumers into scope. Even if you're an American or Australian website, if your website "has a significant number of UK users" or "has UK users as one of it's target markets", you're in scope and must comply. OFCOM provides further guidance on this significant number of UK users part, stating that a "significant number" need not be a majority, or even a small minority, but simply "more than an occasional UK user". It also does not matter whether or not the UK users are registered members of the site or not - the fact that they can access the site and there are a significant amount brings the site into scope. While I don't see that all of this will be enacted rigorously in this way for small websites with a couple hundred visitors, and completely understand the need for the crackdown on "Big Tech" and their associated chums, for all these reasons I really do think the Government have significantly erred in not offering some limited exemptions, and whilst I personally do still feel that it is an overreaction of some to suggest that they need to either shut their websites down or block UK access to them, I do understand why some who might read the legislation or OFCOM Codes in isolation might think that this is simply too much personal risk involved. I'm wondering if at some point it might be useful for me to write a really detailed guide on this subject, however, not sure how useful this will be given that the deadline date for implementation is 16th March. That being said, it's worth noting for anyone with a project in the pipeline - legislation now says that any service in scope that is online prior to 16th March must have it's risk assessments completed and in place by that date, but if the service launches after 17th March, the service will have 3 months in order to prepare it's assessments and come into compliance with the Act.

In the past on my big forum I used individual forum permissions (a great feature of phpBB which is probably replicated in most forum software nowadays, but wasn't necessarily 10+ years ago) to set post editing time limits on a section-based level. For forums I thought it was reasonable for members to need to regularly edit posts, I enabled editing anytime, and for forums where I thought editing wasn't so crucial I gave a very short time limit for editing (usually around 30 minutes) just to enable grammar/spelling fixes or someone to add quotes etc. On one of my first forums (a relatively small one) I did have a problem with a member who was very active and then didn't agree with something one day so went on a mass editing spree and effectively deleted all of his content, effectively ruining 25% or so of the forum's content. It wasn't fun, and I wanted to take any opportunity I could to limit the potential for something similar to happen again, hence using those permission settings.

Outside of being "scammed" a few times on online games when I was a teenager, and being the victim of a genuinely crazy fraud (must've been card cloning) a few years ago, I've luckily been able to avoid being scammed pretty well throughout life. I'm generally quite an anxious person as it is, so alarm bells really ring for me when I see something on the "too good to be true" level! But I completely get that sometimes scams aren't as simple as this to identify. In the UK this type of fraud has recently been recognised as a type of fraud that's been named APP fraud (Authorised Push Payment), and somewhat shockingly (probably because they thought Government were close to legislating), many banks and financial institutions have signed up to voluntary agreements to refund customers who become victims of APP fraud who aren't "significantly at fault" for their loss - and generally, at least so far, they seem to be relatively reasonable with this definition.

Yes - you are absolutely correct. The assessments are also more rigorous than I initially realised, as the obligation seems to actually be to write an assessment for each of the "17 main identified harms" by OFCOM - this is going to be a lot of work, more than I initially realised, but still not unfeasible. If you need someone to co-sign assessments, reach out. Always happy to help. EDIT: Also note in this regard, the assessment "approver", nor the assessor themselves, need be a UK resident, of course. EU citizens or citizens from any part of the world for that matter do not seem to be prevented from taking part in assessments, as long as they are "competent" and are undertaking their assessment or approval role in consideration of OFCOM's guidance and Code of Practice. FYI, blogs are not clearly within the scope of OSA as it appears at the moment. If the site does not have a user-to-user private messaging feature, or doesn't allow users to comment on each other's user-generated content, then it is not in scope. For example, if your blog only allows comments in response to your articles, you will be fine - but if your blog allows users to comment directly in reply to other's comments, this will bring you within scope.

From my current understanding, you've pretty much nailed it - although I have a lot of work to do on this to ensure our organisation is fully compliant and have the whole week dedicated to this next week, so I will be sure to come back and update if I find anything else. According to OFCOM's Code of Practice from what I see you also need to have a complaints procedure that is "readily accessible" (in practice, probably means adding a link to footer), that covers a user's right to complain and request a review of a decision to take down their content/profile or restrict their profile in line with the OSA. Note that it would seem the obligation at initial glance only extends to content removed or restrictions that you put in place directly in order to comply with OSA - so for example, you do not need to provide a "formal review mechanism" for a person who just spams the website (unless that content was otherwise defined within the OSA and might trigger a mandatory report, for example). Also within your risk assessment you need to nominate a "responsible person" (usually the website owner) who has a formal legal duty to keep the risk assessment under review and comply with the duties to report "priority illegal content". Somebody other than the assessment writer, (although not necessarily a more senior person) also needs to approve the risk assessment. Finally, I have now found the part in the guidance (note this part is in guidance and not the legislation or more formal "Code of Practice") that suggests OFCOM's expectation is for website owners to fully review and re-authorise their risk assessments at least once a year, and immediately if there is a "significant change in the design or delivery of services".

I used PayPal to handle all payments on my old forum, although for a very short while I did experiment with Skrill (formerly Moneybookers) early on, I quickly found that it wasn't nearly as popular as PayPal. For a short while and as a meme I also accepted cryptocurrency payments, but this was long before the big "crypto-crazes". I still have lost Bitcoins somewhere that I will never retrieve. :cry:

Unfortunately I can't drive at the moment for medical reasons, so not an option for me, but I like the idea of being able to essentially choose when you work. Even though the money isn't great, the convenience of the gig economy I imagine is what attracts so many. My brother worked for Just Eat for a while as a delivery driver and was able to choose his own hours and make relatively decent money in his local area (small town, can get anywhere in 10 mins, so really ideal). In bigger cities and with longer travel times, I do sometimes struggle to see some of the earning potential...

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I've just had a PM about this from another person actually, so glad I looked at this thread. I work for a charity in the UK that was requested to submit a consultation to the Government about the Online Safety Act. The consultation we submitted was thoughtful, reasoned and well thought-out, and included some exemptions for small websites and non-profit organisations - unfortunately, the Government have given very little in this regard and almost any site that offers either a private messaging feature or an ability for users to comment/interact with other user-generated content will be in scope, which is not ideal. This being said, over the length of this morning I have been reviewing the actual legislation and OFCOM Code of Practice in detail, and my initial assessment is that this does not place overly onerous duties on a forum admin. The main bulk of the work will be the initial period of conducting your relevant risk assessments. As long as your risk assessments show a low level of risk, which they should do for most small online forums, then your duties at that point become effectively to "be a good admin" - report any serious illegal wrongdoing on your website to the relevant authorities, and take action upon reports of potentially harmful content and have a complaints process in place in this respect. It's more work sure, but I am not seeing why some are saying this is the "end" of your average joe being able to run his forum without accepting massive liability. This is not the case on my reading of the legislation.

Facebook Pages or Groups are the place to move if you've hit the friend limit on a personal account and you want to expand. As a teenager when I was a regular Facebook'er, I was always at the friend limit on my account and would have to remove people before adding new ones... which wasn't a problem seeing as the vast majority of the friends I had on there I didn't know anyhow. :ROFLMAO: It is depressing to think how much more dangerous the internet has become over the last 10-15 years for teenagers, no way would I ever allow any of my nieces or nephews to randomly add people on Facebook nowadays...

Good luck to all entrants this month, it's shaping up to be the most competitive Site of the Month at Administrata yet with the most entrants for one contest we've had so far if I'm not mistaken. Really looking forward to reviewing all the candidates in more detail before casting my vote later this month! :) Wow, Wober! I remember that forum from way back, unfortunately cannot for the life of me remember my username or email address, which is sad. Great to see an OG forum still around. :D

Whenever I've started a forum, I've always tried to read everything and engage with as much content as possible for as long as possible generally. With my biggest forum, at a certain point, that become impossible as there were on some occasions tens of thousands of posts being made each month - at that stage, reading everything obviously becomes simply unfeasible. :ROFLMAO: At this point I tended on setting myself smaller goals - read all posts in the staff discussion forums and suggestions & feedback subforums, and try to ensure I kept up regular appearances in the main sections too even if I couldn't read everything.

Old school - drafting out designs with pen and paper, a practice I certainly approve of! In like with the others commenting, I'm certainly more inclined to say that I prefer the first version. Make sure you share more of your designs with us [mention=490]otisbooard[/mention] :)