hehehehehhehe i cop this crap all the time on my forum,do as i do offer them $1 so they can go ring somebody that cares,some people thrive of trying cause admins stress,sleep well and forget about it,its only bluffing,testing your strength

There are no laws against it in the United States, but seeing how the UK is slowly becoming a socialist society, maybe it is against the law, but that would be stupid. I'd highly doubt it.

With all due respect to all the many great members we all have, on our various communities, there will always be 10, 15, 20 or so Jerks who make your life a living hell- at one time or another. I had an entire group of these types- they turned on me because I liked to keep things running My way (It was my website and my forum afterall) and I sold the place, they kept on and kept on- the new Management allowed it.

To be in the business of running forums, you must love and believe in what you are doing, otherwise, it just is not worth it. Those people caused me a lot of emotional stress, my fault, I allowed asses like that to bother me- but I did get death threats, my home address and phone numbers published in the open. And the best part of it all, they felt they were right to do so- and anything that happened at all, I was the blame of it...lol... Can we say raving Lunatics? Most of those are- the ones who will attack us, and in my case, I had legal means to get back at them.

This sounds interesting.........I have to ask...


details!!

Oh I have had already 2 threats for sueing and nobody sued me, lol.
The first one was a user who asked me to delete him cause he didn't want us to have his personal info (lol!). I said no as we never delete members, that's our policy and guess what? He did not sue us.
The second and most annoying one was the admin of another site which has one third of our members. I told him he had double accounts in his forum (I had evidence for it from one of his previous moderators that is now my friend) and he said he would sue me for that and bring as witnesses the persons I acussed to be his accounts. He even closed his forum for some days with a message that said (amongother things) that the site is in legal dispute.
However, regardless all these, he did not sue me, did nothing at all and re-opened his site after some days. I think he did it to attract new members but his site died after that. Most members he had stopped coming for some reason... Justice after all ;)

When clients/members/users/guests, etc. start threatening

• My service to them stops.
• They do not get a single response from me until they apologize.

I have learned the hard way that these pathetic individuals, many of whom are incapable of communicating in a mature and compassionate manner are not worthy of my time. It's what they want. Attention.

Usually you don't have to worry. Some sites though can and do bring up lawsuits (political ones come to mine), which are enforced. Another are over copyright issues.

But for giving IPs out and such, hardly, just to the nature of the internet with it being so open in the first place.

So don't sweat it until you actually get a legal notice, which is uncommon.

Chris
EDIT: Quoted the whole post!