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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:33:02 GMT
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Steve Bliss <steve.bliss@earthlink.net> wrote:
This means that LEGOFan will need to provide these 'safeguards'.  One
idea we've discussed is to flag different areas (or whatever) as
kid-appropriate (or not). Then members who are kids won't be able to
access areas marked for adults. And maybe some adult members would
appreciate the option to hide the 'kid areas'. ;)

So what would be available to not-logged-in users? Greatest common factor?

From a pragmatic standpoint, that seems like that'll dramatically chop the
usefulness of the site -- imagine if Google only showed Kid-Safe-Verified
sites unless you logged in.

--
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) Good idea. (...) That's a very good question; I don't remember if it's been discussed. (...) True. All of this needs to be worked out in detail, by the community. But I'd expect that many areas of LF will be generally open, with a relative few (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)
  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) The Google image search does have a SafeSearch filter, which is on by default. It's not actively moderated, but it does keep most of the porn out of the results. (URL) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.org)

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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) My understanding is that LEGO would like to have a site that they can feel comfortable sending traffic (kids and adults), but which they don't control and aren't responsible for. This site (LEGOFan) could include content (such as offsite (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)  

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