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Carsharing is a model of short-term car rental in which people can rent cars by the hour or even by the minute. Commercial operators tend to focus on cities, and rarely have offers in smaller communi …

I am attempting to create an online Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) web site/forum. The site/forum aims to assess the costs and benefits of state and local level legislation through crowd sourcing. T …

What should be done about threats of physical violence? Should moderators report serious threats to law enforcement? If so, will they care?

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 …

In legal terms, I don't think there's any law about "don't steal hashtags", so no legal problem here. …

About a year ago we received a report from one of our users that they were getting inappropriate messages from another user. Upon investigation, we found child-grooming behaviour from the offender tow …

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 …

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?

In my mission-driven organization, we believe its important for newly accepted members of the leadership to take a pledge to follow and uphold the core purpose and values. What are ways that other va …

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. …

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 …

Are there legal reasons that I should consider before writing him back via e-mail? …

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. …

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 …

Is the organization legal obligated to provide legal support? … Is there a legal obligation for communities to provide legal support for volunteers? …