UK’s 2023 online safety act

[wurzelmac]

Hello, is this forum also in danger (like the WeatherCat forum) - because it's hosted in UK?

https://athena.trixology.com/index.php? ... g20830#new

[freddie]

No.

[mcrossley]

See Chris's thoughts on this at the weather-watch forum. He sums it up nicely I think (tldr: OSA = nothing to worry about for our fora!)
https://discourse.weather-watch.com/t/f ... ts/75037/5

[wurzelmac]

Thanks folks!

[HansR]

Could somebody summarize the issues here in a few sentences?

[freddie]

If somebody posts about or provides links to certain things (I'm not going to list them here) then we as forum admins will be requested to take them down. Non-compliance will result in large fines.

This forum is well moderated and is small with a small user base, so is easily managed. Plus registration is essentially invite-only.

[HansR]

@freddie: thanks.

Comment: I have nothing to do with WeatherCat but don't see why it would have such serious issue being just a weather app?

[freddie]

@hansr - I agree. I think that closing down their forum is OTT.

[HansR]

OTT meaning what? I presume it means Over The Top in which case I would say: spot on.

[freddie]

Yes, over the top. Apologies for British slang

[RayProudfoot]

As a moderator on a flight sim site the main problems comes from the Indian sub-continent with spam pointing to various businesses. Nothing crude. They’re banned immediately. I’m sure the same would happen here.

[saratogaWX]

As admin of WXForum.net, Ive offered the WeatherCat folks a home (and boards) to continue their discussions.

Our forum is based in the USA hosting, and is also well moderated. I see no issues with complying with the UK OSA and the EU GDPR.

We too, have the occasional spammer registration with a dubious post -- it is quickly spotted, removed and poster silenced.

Regards,
Ken (admin wxforum.net, saratoga-weather.org)

[broadstairs]

Please see https://discourse.weather-watch.com/t/c ... 2023/75072 for Chris McMahon's take on how he's handling this. It transpires that Discourse which is used for his forum handles this quite well.

Stuart

[water01]

This facility to Report a "dodgy" post is also available in phpBB by using the the ! (exclamation mark) on a post. The moderators will then pick it up and deal with it. Also this site runs a link to "Stop Forum Spam" which picks up persistent Spammers, plus new members first post is not accepted until a moderator has reviewed it.

So it is my belief that this forum as with others I work on follow the act.