Recent content by MKnott

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    Announcement Disabling Direct Messages in the forums

    Nothing right now, this pretty much covers the risk in my view and we won't have to do anything else. That's not a guarantee that we won't have to consider age verification or other tools, but from my perspective we're compliant by doing this and it means we don't have to look at other items. I...
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    Announcement Disabling Direct Messages in the forums

    I understand you're upset, but you're not really making any sense if you read my post. ...technically you're right, but it doesn't change things because even those numbers are a magnitude less than public posts and more DM's is not a reason to keep them unfortunately - quite the opposite. You...
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    Announcement Disabling Direct Messages in the forums

    We know that DM's mainly go to administrators mainly because that's the key use case for them. There are not that many DM's by volume being sent, we can see it on the back end and it's the easiest way to guarantee compliance without making larger changes. There are more DM's sent here than...