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What obligation does a community have to provide legal protection for users acting on behalf...

Is the organization legal obligated to provide legal support? … Is there a legal obligation for communities to provide legal support for volunteers? …
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Steal Hashtags in social networks as guerrilla strategy

In legal terms, I don't think there's any law about "don't steal hashtags", so no legal problem here. …
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Benefits of requiring users to attach their real name to their content

Is there a benefit to requiring people to participate under their real (legal name)? For example, the question and answer site Quora requires users to provide their real name. …
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What to do when a child contacts you?

Are there legal reasons that I should consider before writing him back via e-mail? …
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How to discern a case of illegal sockpuppetry from a group of people legally contributing fr...

Cases of (not too well concealed) sockpuppetry can often be characterized by different accounts using the same IP and more or less massively upvoting each other in shorter or longer periods of time. …
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How do you moderate private communication channels?

How can I balance legal issues and rule obedience with users' privacy over a 'private' communication channel between two users? …
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How can one organise moving a large Q&A community?

Assuming that legal and technical issues are solved (all user-contributed content is available under a permissive license, database dumps are available, features are similar enough): how could users organise …
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How can I word a user-licensing doc so a user cannot justify deleting all their posts, excep...

They threatened legal action if I did not remove every single post they created on the forum. I told them no, but I allowed them to delete images they created, such as photos. …
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As a Wikisource admin, should I close copyright violations discussions that I started?

On Wikisource potential copy right discussions occur in forum style at Wikisource:Possible copyright violations. When anyone notices a potential copyright violation they are able to blank the text of …
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How does one come up with a TOS for a site?

I don't even know where to start on this other than hiring a lawyer... How does one come up with Terms of Service for a site?
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What are the possible repercussions of either removing or ignoring potential copyright infri...

On any site that accepts user contributions, a certain amount of copyrighted material ends up getting posted. Quotes used without full attribution are not uncommon, and reuse of copyrighted images is …
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How do I mange a "Right to be Forgotten" request if I am based in North America, but user is...

I am a forum owner for a small community. We have a global audience but a community of only about 400 active users. Recently, I was sent a PDF version of Google's Right to be Forgotten form, filled ou …
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What are the disadvantages to organic non-centralised communities?

Why do we need to have a centralised hierarchical authority in our communities instead of letting them organise themselves? I am not well informed about this, so I apologise if this is in the wrong pl …
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What should be done about threats of physical violence?

What should be done about threats of physical violence? Should moderators report serious threats to law enforcement? If so, will they care?
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Can I use data from public Google Docs file to seed my new site?

I have a website that depends on reviews. In the initial stage I will have a classic chicken-egg problem. I need reviews to attract readers, and I need readers to attract writers. After some research …
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