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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 8:53:00 GMT
Sorry, been thinking again!...who ‘owns’ an internet forum? One view might be that it’s whoever starts the forum, another view might be it’s shared between all those who contribute to the forum...or a bit of both. When I say contribute, I mean those who post. Some forums obviously cost money to run, but surely if the forum is funded by it’s members, it would be wrong for the site owner to treat it as a personal business and dictate who can join and who can’t. Especially if the forum was handed over in good will. In the case of CWF, maybe they could have a vote on who runs it as well as who moderates it... As for Delta here. fair play to him.  |
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 19, 2018 8:54:49 GMT
In the case of CWF, maybe they could have a vote on who runs it as well as who moderates it... Yes, but as Denial is a Remoaner, if the voting didn't go the way he wanted there would have to be another 'People's Vote'. |
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Post by Jim on Dec 19, 2018 9:30:34 GMT
Technically, it's whoever's name is on the initial creation stuff, so Denial over t'road and D9 here. They get it in the neck if something goes amiss. Don't know if it's possible to start one as a group of owners.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 19, 2018 15:12:57 GMT
Anyone from CWDF is free to start their own discussion forum if they want to. I'm surprised no-one has already. No, not really, we all know they're all too lazy. I might start my own Geology forum sometime, have been playing with the idea. Unless such exists already - haven't found one yet, though.    |
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Post by bills on Dec 19, 2018 15:36:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 18:36:44 GMT
Technically, it's whoever's name is on the initial creation stuff, so Denial over t'road and D9 here. They get it in the neck if something goes amiss. Don't know if it's possible to start one as a group of owners. It wasn't dhutch who created canal world. It was a geyser called Jon Belcher. He handed it over to dhutch at some stage I presume there was some sort of gentleman's agreement not to put advertising on there. A contract maybe. I don't know but its quite intriguing as it is a large and very searchable site so someone somewhere must be smelling the money I would have thought. |
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Post by Jim on Dec 19, 2018 22:41:18 GMT
Technically, it's whoever's name is on the initial creation stuff, so Denial over t'road and D9 here. They get it in the neck if something goes amiss. Don't know if it's possible to start one as a group of owners. It wasn't dhutch who created canal world. It was a geyser called Jon Belcher. He handed it over to dhutch at some stage I presume there was some sort of gentleman's agreement not to put advertising on there. A contract maybe. I don't know but its quite intriguing as it is a large and very searchable site so someone somewhere must be smelling the money I would have thought. Yes, presumably all the admin details were changed into dhutch, so he "owns" it now. His neck is on the block. |
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Post by Gone on Dec 20, 2018 9:44:53 GMT
Unless there are documents stating otherwise, I would suggest that whoever owns the domain name owns the forum, as the domain name is key to everything.
Added - The forum Ts&Cs should define who owns copyright on the contents of the individual posts
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