QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Wed 31st March 2010, 11:00pm)
(On the other hand, I would not be surprised to find that the lunatics who started Unvarnished got their idea from seeing examples of Section 230 being used to avoid responsibility for what your users post, a la Wikipedia. Hope they have plenty of money for attorneys.)
I was trying out Unvarnished today, just to test the waters.
Interesting that about an hour after I made one comment about someone, I received this notice, apparently only the 16th ever issued by the site:
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Unvarnished Community Guidelines Violation Notification [Report # 16]
You are receiving this message because members of the Unvarnished community reported some content you submitted as being in violation of our Community Guidelines, Review Guidelines, Terms of Service, or Privacy Policy.
Particularly, your content "more about his bachelor love life than about the wreckage he's left behind from two marriages and past friends he's double-crossed" on profile -http://www.getunvarnished.com/profile/profilePage/XYZXYZ- was found to be problematic, and removed from the site. Namely, the content was -not business related-.
Entirely for research purposes, of course!
It would seem that they're going to have a difficult, difficult time hiding behind Section 230 if their "members of the Unvarnished community" are ever linked to "Unvarnished employees".