Laurence, It's a great idea - one of several we raised when we hired an outside law firm to tell us how to do this
The lawyers told us the law is extremely in-flexible (despite several rounds of yelling at them) and their comments included things like "all the other sites are violating the rules and liable unless they're a non-profit 501c3" "the law discourages creativity, as the safe harbor requires you to do specific things to be safe" We spent thousands of dollars looking for a different answer - but this is the legally proper one that large web sites use :-( Gil On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Laurence Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> As we have universal login for 9000+ wikis, it's considered safest >> for >> us to ask for a real date of birth. That way we ensure we do the >> right thing for all our varied communities while complying with >> federal regulations. > > Perhaps offer the alternate option that people attest they are (or > are not) above the age of (legal requirement), like forums do? The > issue people have with this is that there's no guarantee that the > DOB will not be revealed by Wikia in some way. It's safe for you, > but it puts users off. > > > --- > Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry > http://greenreaper.co.uk/ - http://wikifur.com/ > "Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have *you* drunk your fill?" > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. > http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
