301 Reply by scottywz

(21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

The ScottyWZ.COM Forums Rules read:

NO PROFANITY, Spam, OBSCENE AND/OR PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES, RUDE POSTS, DEFAMATORY AND/OR HARASSING REMARKS, AND/OR ANY ADVERTISMENTS EXCEPT WEB SITE OR COMPANY LOGOS ARE PERMITTED ON THE ScottyWZ.COM Forums.

If you are under the age of 21, DO NOT post ANY personal information; if you are under legal age in your place of residence (usually 18 years of age in the U.S.), it is recommended that you seek and obtain parental permission before registering for the ScottyWZ.COM Forums. If you are 21 years of age or older, DO NOT post ANY personal information of ANY person under the age of 21.

These rules may be modified at any time without notice. Any user not abiding by these terms will be banned from the ScottyWZ.COM Forums.

Those are the rules for my forums. This way, anyone posting the info of a person under 21 (whether they are that person or not) will be banned from the forums.

Everyone has to agree to these rules, so I just put them in 72 point font and the word NO
in 144 point font. It pretty much makes them stand out.

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302 Reply by scottywz

(21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Someone could also do a credit card verification thing on their forums, but even if it's a secure connection,  some parents may not want to give out their credit card number (I can see why with all the credit card fraud going around these days). Also, a child could forge the card information, making it look like the parent gave permission when they actually haven't.

And one more thing: Has the COPPA been repealed yet? (See my first post in this topic.)

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303 Reply by scottywz

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

I added a forum to my Forums that contains my site updates. Also, I added a couple of RSS Feeds: New posts for the news forum and active posts throughout he forums.

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304 Reply by scottywz

(13 replies, posted in General discussion)

I don't want them to do that to my Web site.

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305 Reply by scottywz

(21 replies, posted in General discussion)

alicson wrote:

i'd completely forgotten about <del>.  'will certainly be using that now, thanks

I didn't even know <del> even existed.

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306 Reply by scottywz

(9 replies, posted in General discussion)

You could put a robots.txt file in the folder where punBB is, and set it to only index the home and view posts/topics pages. Indexing the user profiles is really a privacy issue. Who wants their MSN Messenger address in Google? Not me. Also, people are getting concerned about their phone number in Google's database.

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307 Topic by scottywz

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

I added a whole batch of forums to my Web site today. Including help from other users, a place to state your opinion about something, and more, they are located at http://forums.interact.users.secure.scottywz.com. (I tried putting the subdomain in the secure section on my Web site, but it didn't work, and I forgot to take the "secure." off. Sorry.)

Scotty

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308 Reply by scottywz

(21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

sfackler wrote:

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but in phpbb, when you register, if you are under 13, you get emailed a little form that you fill out and your parent has to sign before you can post.  It wouldn't be all that hard to make a mod for it.

Yeah, but the parent has to either mail it in or fax it in to the person doing the forum. Snail-mailing it can take too long (especially if you live in Arizona and the Webmaster lives in Maine), and some people don't even have fax machines. Besides, both are too much trouble on the Webmaster, just like the COPPA itself.

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309 Reply by scottywz

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Baaaah! I personally HATE the COPPA. How many LEGITIMATE companies would harm a child? The COPPA could just say that you can't distribute a child's information. Also, the FTC said that everybody in the world, not just the U.S.A., has to comply with it, which is sort of like controlling other countries. (Korea has something similar to COPPA, but it applies to children under 14 instead of 13 [I read that the bill for COPPA said under 16, which I think is outrageous].) With that said, I am not against children's privacy; rather, I am against the COPPA.

Gary13579 wrote:

I was acctually pretty happy that it wasnt in PunBB.

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2) If the user is under 13, whats stopping him/her from pressing that they are over 13?
3) I would not like to be getting any faxes, or even giving out MY address.

I agree. I don't even have a fax machine. Being a Webmaster myself, the COPPA is, in my opinion, too hard for Webmasters to implement.

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