[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by nitro

With regards the TOS quote, as vb.org staff have allready participated in the thread

Staff has replied, and urged the thread starter to reconsider his wordings, and the threadstarter followed up on that.

There are some important differences when compairing vb.org with a newspaper. A newspaper is actively printing the articles, meaning they review and choose what is printed. vB.org however (like most boards, unless with full moderation) is not publicating the message, the poster is. We can only review afterwards.

Originally Posted by nitro

As the TOS states they will endevour to remove objectionable posts by members, and the fact that they have participated in the thread and left it open to public veiwing and response, thereby possibly failing to act as per their own TOS impo has left them wide open to a contraversal and potentially succesful suit.

Wrong again. We have requested to change the wording to what we think is an acceptable level (yes you can argue about that). We are no judges, and we can not judge of this still is slander or not. If the coder decides to start a lawsuite and the judge say it is not allowed, then we will have to remove it.

If we don't remove it with a courtorder, then we would be liable.