It really should be as simple as age verification and a disclaimer. I’d happily pay a small fee a month via a credit card for this site, as it’s only one I use.
Agree. It's just going to take greater staffing and therefore finance to keep forums going. People will have to decide if their pockets are deep enough and or, time is better spent elsewhere.
Not sure how many ‘active’ users this site has, but if you charged say £1 month for it, that’s worth running for someone as a steady background income. Likely couple thousand users and more of some sites disappear.
I'd imagine there are plenty of people, on here, with the requisite time, computer and brain cells to administer the place free tbh.
I agree, I'd pay a small subscription to keep this place going. The issue with user verification is the site owner is then responsible for managing confidential personal information...unless it uses a third party but not sure how that works data protection wise.
Currently on the site, only 189 users vast majority are guest visitors. Would need to convert a few to members.
Reddit is a dreadful place though, full of weirdos and trigger happy moderators who ban people for a difference of opinion. Most of the politics related threads on this board would have half the posters banned if it was Reddit.
I would be more than happy to pay a subscription to keep this place going. Would also be willing to help out any current members who maybe couldn't pay anything. We've got a great little community on here, and would hate to see it go, or to see posters disappear.
i hope this is not being done to basically stop all meaningful debate, there is nowt wrong with a few opinions going backwards and forwards and any 'nasty/anti' stuff is easily spotted. protecting the kids is fine but covering them in a protective layer is not great, there is bad out there and they need to learn that...learning what to avoid is part of protecting them.
Posted and stickied on RTG today. (They can't spell 'Harrasment' or 'forwarned' but it's a good effort.) If they'd moderated the site better it wouldn't have become the mess it is now. "The UK Online Safety Act will start being applied from today and places many more obligations on RTG as forum operators. We believe that our own terms and conditions are already more stringent than the OSA in many areas, but we also now have a legal duty to ensure that the Act is applied on this site. Of the 17 priority kinds of potentially illegal content described in the act there are 3 that stand out as things which have occured on here in the past (and to this day). They are: 1. Hate 2. Harrasment, stalking, threats and abuse 3. Controlling or coercive behaviour Be forwarned that the moderators will be cracking down harder on these and if people persist they will be warned and subsequently banned. We are definitely not seeking to close down debate and disagreements, but some of the hatred, abuse and name-calling needs to stop. If you address your argument against a post and not against a poster and what you say is legal, you have little to fear."
Just had a look at the bright new world, over there after the warning, and the first new thread was attacking another group of Sunderland supporters ... ... you really couldn't make it up.
Interesting. Think your post the other night would have been well past the line. (The shut up and die one). Not having a go but guess that's what this online bill has been brought in. Guess that would have copted you a ban over there.
Interesting, 7.14am and your very first post on the week is directed at me. I guess that would’ve copped you a ban over there. As would posting that employees of the club are engaged in skullduggery, that things are happening, in club affairs, that aren't true, etc 1. Hate 2. Harassment, stalking, threats and abuse 3. Controlling or coercive behaviour By the way what I actually said was 'Lighten up, just f*ck off and die.' Unlike yourself I don't post something then routinely backtrack on what I've posted such as 'Hume is shyte' ... ... then come back and claim you only meant that in comparison to a different player.
Jesus fella. Wrong side of the bed this morning. Was just making a point given the post and the online safety bill. Guess it's time for another month off from seeing your posts.
Grow up, you came on here the moment your eyes opened to have a pop at me ... ... as usual you start an argument you can't win and have a tantrum. Get off and post a thread of your own to have another attack at the club for not doing what you told them.
None of this is accurate. I was on the exercise bike to be honest and just reading up on the online safety thread. And remember seeing your post about kill yourself to another and thought, that's how easy it would be to cop a ban under this new bill. No tantrum at all. No attack on the club or no new thread needed.
Anyway, back to the thread... I think it's good that our place seems to have the ability and resource to keep going under this new set of regulations. Be interesting to see how moderation is completed as we move forward.
