mellors Posted December 19 Report Share Posted December 19 Hi all. Anyone know if our forums are under threat with the new internet protection stuff coming in march. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 19 Report Share Posted December 19 "The Act places new safety duties on social media firms, search engines, messaging, gaming and dating apps, and pornography and file-sharing sites. Before we can enforce these duties, we are required to produce codes of practice and industry guidance to help firms to comply, following a period of public consultation." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie to this Posted December 19 Report Share Posted December 19 1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: "The Act places new safety duties on social media firms, search engines, messaging, gaming and dating apps, and pornography and file-sharing sites. Before we can enforce these duties, we are required to produce codes of practice and industry guidance to help firms to comply, following a period of ignoring the public" That's more accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matone Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 Been a lot of discussion on a non shooting forum that I frequent in last few days ! General consensus is that most small fora run by individuals/small teams will have to close come March `25 ,as Admins/Mods of same will be liable to huge fines/costs for non compliance with Ofcom rules !!!! Get searching folks we`re about to lose the Internet we know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmamonster Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 Does that mean all gun forums will be shutting down or is there away round it.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 Hello, Would a change of name help ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matone Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 1 hour ago, mmamonster said: Does that mean all gun forums will be shutting down or is there away round it.? It will affect ALL forums,only those that can afford to comply and subsequently monitor posts AND PM`s full time will be able to continue apparently..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmamonster Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 1 minute ago, matone said: It will affect ALL forums,only those that can afford to comply and subsequently monitor posts AND PM`s full time will be able to continue apparently..... Thank you for the info Atb Mart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armsid Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 Freedom of speech gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 Looking at this bag of spanners legislation we seem to be in a good place, we as a site over the years with the help of past admin have a good set of rules in place and the site on a whole is well moderated,i believe as the act comes into place it will be changed as they are made aware of the one size fits all policy doesn't work, let's not all panic just yet and see how things unfold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matone Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 1 minute ago, welsh1 said: Looking at this bag of spanners legislation we seem to be in a good place, we as a site over the years with the help of past admin have a good set of rules in place and the site on a whole is well moderated,i believe as the act comes into place it will be changed as they are made aware of the one size fits all policy doesn't work, let's not all panic just yet and see how things unfold. You would hope so but the present Party in power wanted to make it even more draconian when it was being drawn up !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 2 minutes ago, matone said: You would hope so but the present Party in power wanted to make it even more draconian when it was being drawn up !!!! When all the little community groups who are usually run by karens and generally labour leaning all the sport groups, hobby groups start to complain then i think things will change, the legislation was supposed to go for the corporates fb, x, tictok etc, but people with no real knowledge of online forums seem to have drawn this up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted December 20 Report Share Posted December 20 if Ofcom/Labour try to close down mums net...............all the mp's will need to be issued with 24/7 police protection and body armour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matone Posted December 21 Report Share Posted December 21 ...have heard that observation elsewhere !!!lol .Apparently that organisation has a couple of million ££££s spare and will be able to comply ....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clangerman Posted December 22 Report Share Posted December 22 as the German thread is now gone I will be amazed if we don’t end up in trouble under the new rules let’s hope we can afford the fines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelsh Posted December 22 Report Share Posted December 22 What is this all about im not understanding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted December 22 Report Share Posted December 22 45 minutes ago, clangerman said: as the German thread is now gone I will be amazed if we don’t end up in trouble under the new rules let’s hope we can afford the fines! I don't think that such an important thread should have been shut down, would have been better to delete off topic posts and ban warnings given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clangerman Posted December 22 Report Share Posted December 22 24 minutes ago, old'un said: I don't think that such an important thread should have been shut down, would have been better to delete off topic posts and ban warnings given. I agree the usual suspects ignore warnings then escape Scot free they wouldn’t feel so clever cooling their heels for a mth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted December 22 Report Share Posted December 22 31 minutes ago, clangerman said: I agree the usual suspects ignore warnings then escape Scot free they wouldn’t feel so clever cooling their heels for a mth! 59 minutes ago, old'un said: I don't think that such an important thread should have been shut down, would have been better to delete off topic posts and ban warnings given. Belive me Admin have been very lenient to this point, we have already used the ban button this week, we have asked nicely, but if people persist we will ban more. searching through off topic posts is difficult because when you remove it you then have to find anyone who has quoted it and then edit their post or remove it, which then can have a knock on effect that the thread doesn't make sense, we do our best to keep the conversation in order, but there are times where it won't work, and despite admin asking for it to be kept on topic persons persist, it's at this point we chose to remove it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellors Posted December 22 Author Report Share Posted December 22 What is the position having a closed forum ???. Or restricted access. At present were open to any one looking young or old maybe even partial closure the same as the wanted section maybe the way to go. Also definitely some kind of restricted access to the sales section to new members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houseplant Posted December 22 Report Share Posted December 22 On 21/12/2024 at 07:18, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, Would a change of name help ?? I thought this was a bird watching forum 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellors Posted December 22 Author Report Share Posted December 22 1 hour ago, Houseplant said: I thought this was a bird watching forum 👍 It is over here at the moment twitchers everywhere. 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genghis Posted December 22 Report Share Posted December 22 Currently you can view the entire forum as a guest. Changing that would likely reduce the number of new members as most people to join a forum do so because they have read a topic as a guest and want to post. However, it might be worth considering if there is a need to be more discreet. This still being a fully independent forum going into 2025 is somewhat unique - in a good way. Most similar forums have been bought out and are owned by various corporations. Shotgun World is owned by VerticalScope. I’m not sure who owns airgunforums and thestalkingdirectory but they both use the same template from XenForo for their forums - identical layout just a different colour palette. shootclayforum is independent but is constantly asking for donations to keep going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yates Posted Monday at 02:13 Report Share Posted Monday at 02:13 7 hours ago, Houseplant said: I thought this was a bird watching forum 👍 You beat me to it☺️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houseplant Posted Monday at 03:42 Report Share Posted Monday at 03:42 1 hour ago, yates said: You beat me to it☺️ Somewhat serious point, my predictably lefty, woke local library blocks all websites related to hunting and guns on their WiFi, yet PW gets past their filters 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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