hey, i have found lately a lot of people have been posting illegal ideas on my site. such as making fake id's ...scamming...etc, anyway i am just wondering can i get in trouble for hosting this material? how do i stay safe?
i don't think you can get in trouble for hosting ideas like those but i do think you should delete them. Would you like to promote illegal stuff?
there is a possibility of you being charged as an associate in case your users do something illegal and traced back to your website.
Put a disclaimer on your website that says something along the lines of: "The staff tries very hard to actively moderate what content our users post, but it is very difficult to keep up with every single post due to the volume of members and visitors each day. If you find any inappropriate contact, please report this to a staff member." If you show, or at least pretend that you are monitoring what your user's post without actually doing so, you can't be held accountable. But if in this post you had a reply of some sort, it proves that you knew about it and should have deleted it. Try to keep yourself from taking part in these "illegal" conversations and if you receive complaints about certain posts, remove them.