Hello, I'm a recent member and I think this forum is very nice. I see also that the moderation is kind of serious, especially towards spam (this is a bit annoying though, as when someone serious shows up and needs a forum badly, like buy/sale in my case, he has to type posts to increase his posts number and wait for 14 days, which I believe is a little excessive). However, I found that no moderation is made concerning blatantly illegal activity. For instance, i saw a post proposing "warez hosting on offshore servers", and many others alike. Why moderate only what could affect the prosperity of these forums and not what is moral to moderate as well ? I'm not talking about ambiguous cases, just the blatant cases. Besides, if somebody runs into trouble someday, he may very well turn against the DP forums owners since moderation is so meticulous here, but overlooks the legal aspects (hence, the owner(s) of the forums would not be able to argue that they cannot "see everything"). A consultation of the laws by the administrators would make them realize that the argument "we are not responsible for the content" only holds up to a certain reasonable treshold ...
So is this thread made to increase your posts? I think it's a little bit unfair that you only seek a forum only for personal interest and not to help others. It should be balanced. You benefit from the forum but you help other members and the forum itself. As for scams, you are directly responsible for all transactions in DP and DP is not and will not be liable for such things.
This is a webmaster forum, NOT a legal system, There is no way for DP to decide what is " illegal " and what isnt, There are such things as, FBI, POLICE, COURT ROOMS, that handle illegal crimes and make those laws, Plus with this forum being an International forum, these laws vary from country to country.. However , If you feel that something is SO illegal that it should be removed , or looked into use the " report " feature on any post and the Staff will look into it The report button looks like this : , and is located on every post Welcome to the forum by the way, I hope you enjoy your stay
Well, I agree on the you should help as well part. I'm not talking about scams. I'm talking about obviously illegal propositions. Laws vary depending on the countries but if the owner of DP forums resides in the US he has to respect US laws. In this respect, if moderators are able to moderate so well the forums (as they do currently) then it is also in their ability to prevent obviously illegal transactions from going on (i'm not talking about mitigated cases). It's not about scams. Take p2p networks as an example, this will show you how the hypocretical argument "i am not responsible for anything" is actually invalid if not exhibited in a reasonable way. There is such a thing called "noone is supposed to ignore the law". In regards to the law itself, this says that, unless you genuinely didn't know that the matter was unlawful, it is your responsibility to act ungainst illegal actions. Example: someone asks you for a gun to kill somebody. You give this person a gun. Will you be able to argue "oh my god, i didn't know that killing someone is forbidden !". This is all about being reasonable. When someone proposes offshore hosting for warez sites, everybody knows it is illegal, including in Hong Kong.
Anyway, i think 14 post is less it should be more! unless Shawn charge for submitting a sales thread and it's free so i think 14 is nothing! Saad
Lol nice Post , i agree with you .. The FBI cannot interfere in DP since it is a webmaster Forum not a warez one