Suggestion for Scam Alert

[brownsfan019 17]

James,

I think this area could be a great area over time. One suggestion to make it work and protect the person submitting the review is to allow the poster to submit the thread as an Anonymous user. As you saw in my thread about a vendor, they became rather obnoxious and while it just reaffirmed my opinion of them, the thread is no longer on TL.

 

Not sure how that could work, but maybe a check box that when posting in this forum you can submit as Anonymous - user name AND IP address. Place a restriction that only premium members can do it since premium is now open to those with 300 or more posts. That would hopefully eliminate any abuse by spammers or those that just want to post rubbish and move on.

[Soultrader 12]

Hi brownsfan,

 

Unfortunately I have removed the scam section in order to protect TL. I received a notice from a legal firm and do not want anything to do with them and would rather avoid this mess altogether. I checked up on the internet laws and an anonymous format will not work.

 

In order to protect both TL and the members, I have decided to remove the scam alert forum. FYI... apparently a website can not be held liable for third party content as in the case here. (need to do more research) Another related case is Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Computer Services, Inc., which was a case of defamatory bulletin board postings. Initially, the poster was tracked. When they could not, Prodigy was sued but later Congress enacted the Communications Decency Act (CDA) to prevent courts from treating internet system operators (in this case the owner of the bulletin board) as publishers of third party content. Thus, the Attorney General ruled that patently offensive language to be unconstitutionally vauge, overboard, and subjective.

 

I reckon this is a case by case judgement. However, just so everyone on TL stays safe the spam alert section has been removed.