How does this forum substantiate accusations toward Mike Chanenchuk? Where is the proof? This has the potential of becoming a legal issue similar to when the Barracuda thread got out of hand.
BOTC has a question for you. What was the accusation made against anyone? There has been discussion as to how fields in Nassau County have been procured. Second, there have been questions about why Nassau County for the OBLL events than hosting those same events in Suffolk County. There has been a discussion of the cost of this tournament relative to some other events in the same time period.
There is no legal issue here just as there was no legal issue related to the Barracudas.
Discussions like these, where anonymous people start to slander specific people on the internet walks a fine legal line.
The law is quite clear on this front. The actual author of content is responsible for their own content. However, the bottom line here is that we have allowed the discussion and quite frankly, nothing slanderous has been stated. More importantly, the discussion has thus far indicated that everything is on the "up and up" since there has been nothing presented to the contrary.
I am familiar with past issues on back of the net where legal actions were taken.
You are? Exactly when would that have been?
On one side the anonymous poster is only anonomous to other readers, not to BOTC. The next responsibilities come from the moderator, which I'm sure they screen much of the slander they feel would incur legal issues.
Understand that one of the challenges with moderation is honestly that some posters might have more knowledge of a topic or situation than we have in the BOTC back offices. We tend to err on the side of removing questionable content based in our views.
You sometimes see posters complain that their posts were missing or content edited. What your left with is seen here. Point is, you are not truely anonymous, think before you post.
If you look at the number of posts that are removed from the board, that number is less than 0.40% (Fewer than 1 in 250 posts). If you throw in the posts where we need to remove a reference, we are less than 0.75% in total. The problem is that these moderation edits run in streaks on a given topic; they are not a constant issue across all discussions.
