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Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:47:12 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John P. Henderson wrote:
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I’m not sure where to post this in this thread, so I’m just going to throw it
out there. If anyone here decides they want to take action (as I said, I’m
not sure what) to build or rebuild the sort of service we had with BS, I want
to make one suggestion: Use people’s real names.
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Brickshelf used to use real names but there have been some laws passed in the
past few years that make that problematic. For one thing, there are laws
against collecting certain information online from people under the age of 13.
The idea is to make it harder for pedophiles to track down their prey. Kevin
took all the real names down one day a few years ago (without much fanfare, they
just disappeared). You used to be able to browse users by their real names, but
then after that you could only use the login name.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) You're referring to the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). (There are similar things in many other countries, but as I understand COPPA is one of the most stringent, so it's what many people deal with as a default) Basically (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
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| I'm not sure where to post this in this thread, so I'm just going to throw it out there. If anyone here decides they want to take action (as I said, I'm not sure what) to build or rebuild the sort of service we had with BS, I want to make one (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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