Cubicle 7 forums to close due to EU data law

[CapnZapp]

I ensured we were OK for GDPR months ago. For a message board like this, it's not a very onerous task. We collect almost zero user data here (username, email, IP, basically) and it isn't shared anywhere. And yep, the functionality to delete an account is present if it becomes needed. We're good.

If I understand it correctly, the issue isn't compliance. It is risk of litigation.

Strike to Stun (the WFRP forums) is (also) shutting down (in part) because of GDPR. The reason given is that it's just not worth the risk of someone suing.

Whether the site is compliant or not isn't the issue. The issue is that GDPR opens up an avenue of blackmail through the legal system, in that no hobby-run forum can afford a legal process and would be forced into giving in to whatever demands are met (most likely shutting the site anyway).

This obviously applies primarily to EU-based sites (Server Goddess runs StS from Austria). Hobby sites run from the U.S., for instance can probably just shrug at any legal demands made at them.

And, obviously, the Googles and Facebooks aren't meaningfully affected since they have the means to protect themselves (translation: "hunt down the legal troll and eat it alive" )

TLDR: I don't think the difference between ENWorld and C7 is that one is "good" and the other isn't. I think the difference is in the judging of risk. C7 (and StS) is making a pessimistic evaluation, you are making an optimistic one.