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The issue is there are only a few mods and they can't keep up. When that happens they just shut down the thread, perhaps forever, or the shut down the whole site until they can catch up.
For us there are no consequences, but for the site, they can get sued. The mods err on the side of not getting sued.
That is why everyone is more sensitive that it seems like they should be to TOS violations.
Hi Curiousobserver,
As Liltexans pointed out, the members are responsible for their posts. In fact, website owners are protected by a federal law from being sued for what other people say on their site.
Of course anyone can be sued for any reason but as far as Websleuths being worried about getting sued I can assure you that is not the reason for our terms of service rules.
Basically we keep the names of people not named by the police off the forum because it is the right thing to do.
Can you imagine if you are innocent of a crime and all of a sudden your name and all your info is all over the internet being accused of a crime? It could easily ruin your life.
As owner I have the moral responsibility to try and do what is right.
We could allow more rumors, salacious details, more digging into background of those associated with a possible perp, all these kinds of things, and to boot, if we allowed all of these things our revenue would go up substantially... but we can't...it is not the right thing to do.
We sometimes fail but we do try our best to allow an open discussion along with doing what is right by our fellow human beings.
Tricia