11-02-2013, 01:33 PM
Geoff Chandler Wrote:"This rule is pretty clear I think:
"Do not link to sites that contain any form of pornography or illegal content."
The CS site has a link to Everyman Chess which in turn has a lnk:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.everymanchess.com/links.php">http://www.everymanchess.com/links.php</a><!-- m -->
To Chess Cafe which in turn has a link:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chesscafe.com/links/links.htm">http://www.chesscafe.com/links/links.htm</a><!-- m -->
To the website that shall not be named written by the Chess player who must not be mentioned.
(Which in turn has a link back to the CS site.)
Still with me? Good.
That means if you link to us from the unmentionable website we form a neat
circle back to the unmnentionable website.
But the rule refers to what the websites we link to contain themselves, not the content of websites they subsequently link to. If we applied six degrees of separation (or similar) to this issue then almost no websites would be able to link to anywhere. As stated, nobody is stopping people viewing that website if they want to. All we are saying is that we do not think it's appropriate to have a link to it on our website, given that minors visit our website and could quite easily bypass any forewarnings in place. Thus, the responsibility rests with us to protect all our users, including the juniours, whose parents would almost certainly be pissed off if their kids navigated to such content directly from our website.