Posting Quality
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Highlander999
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I think this is being blown out of proportion
Mighty Pies
School Cricketer
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couldn't help but to notice the amount of game forums on here. Is this a games forum or a cricket forum???
MattW
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- PlanetCricket is non-commercial [so it fails on the 'a commercial Web site' clause].
- PlanetCricket is not directed towards under 13 children, and though it attracts mostly 15-18 year olds does not actively target an age group. [so not an 'online service directed to children under 13']
- PlanetCricket doesn't knowingly collect personal information from children and any personal information is posted without our solicitation. [so we are not 'a general audience Web site and have actual knowledge that you are collecting personal information from children']
So my reading of that law means we aren't covered.
Cricketdude
Chairman of Selectors
That makes a hell lot of difference. The general quality gets degraded. And the post doesn't look nice at all. How much time does it take to type 'Thanks. That's a great patch'?
Yeah i know but if they dont know much English your just deleting members from the Cricket 07 forum. Soon there will be no members to comment on downloads.
MattW
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No one learns English as text speak. Anyone who uses works like 'thnx' will know it is supposed to be 'thanks'. People are taking the time to read your posts and do requests for you or help you with problems most of the time in the downloads forums, so take the time to spell things out. It makes it easier for people to understand you and makes the forum look of a higher standard.
Insomniac
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Matt - the situation is, what if somebody registers (like Giggity) and sets his birthdate as 01/01/1996 (So he's 11-12)
Then you do have knowledge that you have an underage person, and Giggity / underage person is sharing information with the rest of us in all his posts.
COPPA said:
Basically if Giggity was in the USA, and his parents did not know about it, and sued.
The parents would win.
I can install a very easy COPPA mod, in which the user will register as normally, and enter their birth-date.
Once a birthdate is entered, and it is under 13, it will block the IP address and in the cookies, not allow the user to register an account until the COPPA form is filled out and sent to the administrators.
Just a thought
Left_Hander
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This may have already been raised.
Some people have raised that the quality of posts has gone down and I believe CricSim team threads have something to do with that. I am sure most Cricsim players are guilty of the off-topic posts in these threads and they can be annoying to go through. Heck, if your team has the most posts after one season it is like you have won a minor prize. I am all for team banter etc. but when you have constant rubbish being posted it does lower the quality of the thread.
Some people have raised that the quality of posts has gone down and I believe CricSim team threads have something to do with that. I am sure most Cricsim players are guilty of the off-topic posts in these threads and they can be annoying to go through. Heck, if your team has the most posts after one season it is like you have won a minor prize. I am all for team banter etc. but when you have constant rubbish being posted it does lower the quality of the thread.
Highlander999
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Matt - the situation is, what if somebody registers (like Giggity) and sets his birthdate as 01/01/1996 (So he's 11-12)
Then you do have knowledge that you have an underage person, and Giggity / underage person is sharing information with the rest of us in all his posts.
Basically if Giggity was in the USA, and his parents did not know about it, and sued.
The parents would win.
I can install a very easy COPPA mod, in which the user will register as normally, and enter their birth-date.
Once a birthdate is entered, and it is under 13, it will block the IP address and in the cookies, not allow the user to register an account until the COPPA form is filled out and sent to the administrators.
Just a thought
Why are you so determined to "do" PC for something illegal. Surely it desn't involve you......
Kiko_97
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PlanetCricket is child friendly, that's why we have me, Tuaha, Toby(PPNR) and more. We don't need COPPA to stop our young atmosphere here at PC, also we have the old heads as well for the kiddy/parent feeling.Matt - the situation is, what if somebody registers (like Giggity) and sets his birthdate as 01/01/1996 (So he's 11-12)
Then you do have knowledge that you have an underage person, and Giggity / underage person is sharing information with the rest of us in all his posts.
Basically if Giggity was in the USA, and his parents did not know about it, and sued.
The parents would win.
I can install a very easy COPPA mod, in which the user will register as normally, and enter their birth-date.
Once a birthdate is entered, and it is under 13, it will block the IP address and in the cookies, not allow the user to register an account until the COPPA form is filled out and sent to the administrators.
Just a thought
Karachi Xpress
Chairman of Selectors
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Why do we need to have a 60 second interval between post reports??
Insomniac
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No
When I was an administrator at Cricketime.com, we were sued by some parents for some COPPA regulation thing. Our server was based in the US at the time. In the end, we got off on a technicality - the child registered his age as 24, but in all his posts, he talked about how he was 11 (and he was 11) - The basis of that charge was on the fact that he told us in his posts (whenever he did post) that he was 11.
Then the parents whined about how we should've known and all.
So then I installed this COPPA mod to prevent such a thing from happening in the future.
Thats the only reason I'm worried
How else will the Toronto Tanks win the PCPL competition if this site gets shut down?And Giggity - none of this COPPA stuff applies to you since you're in the UK. :cool:
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