As long as you have the FL threads and a place for people to talk about non-mainstream sex... This forum will inevitably run into trouble with the powers that be.
Basically, they don't want content which they can't control. Its as simple as that, thus they will attack us at our weakest spot (The black sheep that is amongst us just like in any large group).
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Originally Posted by sammyboyfor
The forum began as a simple bulletin board in the Web 1.0 era. In fact the first script was nothing more than a simple guestbook.
It has grown and been defined by members. It's direction has not been determined by me. Neither was the format. All I did was create the various sections in response to the content eg like sorting books on a shelf by category which is pretty much what I am still doing today.
To cut a long story short I can't manage it the way you suggest. I'm not a corporation. I'm a one man show with a few volunteers who help out.
Asking me to moderate everything is pretty much impossible. The link exchange plaza is all embedded stuff. The files are not uploaded to my server. They go to file sharing sites. Some threads contain videos which are 1.5Gb and there could be hundreds posted daily.
If those were child porn videos, how would I possibly tell unless I actually downloaded all of them and reviewed the contents. I would need a staff of 100 and a T1 connection.
To cut a long story short I simply cannot manage the forum anymore as it exists today. It has outgrown my capabilities and time.
For my OZ/NZ forums that I run for Sydney/Christchurch sex workers, I can hire people on the ground to ensure accurate images and proper descriptions, I even provide a photography service through a sub contractor. I tried to do that in Singapore but found it impossible even though prostitution is legal. No photographer wanted to get involved. The brothel operators are therefore given open season to simply steal images from the web and using them thereby exposing the site to all sorts of copyright liabilities.
To sum up the forum as it is now impossible to run if I am to try to ensure compliance to Singapore laws. It's just too big.
The only hope to make it compliant in the eyes of the Singapore authorities is to scale it down to a manageable size so that I can reduce overheads so that it pays its way somehow. I can then check out what sort of format will be acceptable to the police.
Perhaps the yellow pages format where it just says "XYZ escort services - Gorgeous girls available to take care of you" or something similar. However, it would be pretty bland and the forum would probably die in no time.
Sites like travel advisor would never be as popular as they are today if all they did was list destinations and establishments with zero customer inputs. That is why I thought this forum format was ideal because of its interactive nature. Of course I cannot moderate all the posts. It would take me more hours than I have in day unless I scale it down considerably.
I have always relied on community self regulation to keep this forum as sanitised as possible. Obviously it has not worked. I spend most of my on line time in the sexual health issues and matters of the heart sections because that is where I thought that I could be of most value. The rest of the forum was left to run on its own. The end result is the public crucification that we are witnessing today.
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