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I thought you had set up a shell company which actually owned NSC to protect yourself from this sort of thing. There used to be a note right at the bottom of the home page - something like "so and so ltd trading as NSC" (I've forgotten the actual details), but it disappeared after one of the upgrades.
Speaking of which, I hear the Amex suit who performed the opening did a bit of history rewriting. Anyone got any details?
Just a thought but maybe this kind of situation could be avoided if Bozza didn't post anything from Barber here?
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Paul Barber took time to read the Albion losing one million a month? thread and responded to me with some points on various aspects raised. I'm posting them in a separate thread so they get the attention they deserve.
Why is Barber responding to a thread on NSC through Bozza? If Barber has anything he wants to say to the fans then he could make an account and post just like the rest of us. Not hard is it?
That would certainly avoid the spurious accusations being levelled at Bozza and the mods.
Just a thought but maybe this kind of situation could be avoided if Bozza didn't post anything from Barber here?
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Paul Barber took time to read the Albion losing one million a month? thread and responded to me with some points on various aspects raised. I'm posting them in a separate thread so they get the attention they deserve.
Why is Barber responding to a thread on NSC through Bozza? If Barber has anything he wants to say to the fans then he could make an account and post just like the rest of us. Not hard is it?
That would certainly avoid the spurious accusations being levelled at Bozza and the mods.
Very much this. Unless of course there is a certain element of "look at me, Paul Barber speaks to me, I'm important and know lots of what is going on at the club" behind it which I doubt is the reason
I may be slightly more conservative than some but for that I make no apology - it's my name that sits behind NSC. If you are happy to gamble with your own finances and the home of your children etc then go and set up your own site and allow all manner of potentially libellous content to be written. It's very easy to be reckless if you don't believe there is any risk to yourself.
Goodness me Bozza, this argument of yours regarding your entire lifes finances being at risk because of something someone might post on NSC is getting rather tiresome! You make it sound like there are hundreds of poor website/internet forum owners getting regularly sued or shut down and bankrupted due to the actions of its users. There are hundreds if thousands of websites like NSC with millions of posts being made on them daily yet I dont recall seeing regular reports of people such as yourself being dragged through the courts and being made penniless and homeless and unable to provide for their children! Im not saying it doesnt happen but it isnt nearly as much of a risk as you make it out to be. I know its your site and you take the burden of all the risk but I think your house and finances are safe barring the most serious and sustained abuse which would have to continue unchecked for weeks if not months for NSC to pose any risk to you.
The risks might be tiny, or very real (I've no idea) - but regardless of how small they are, they are Bozza's risks. Who the hell are you, or any of us, to tell him what risks he should be prepared to take?
And its not just financial risks - its the ballache of dealing with lawyer's letters, legal threats, threats of violence , and general unnecessary bullshit, that would all be avoided if everyone took responsibility for their own actions.
Well this is the mesasage I received early Sat in relation to the opening ceremony -
"I hear at the Training Ground opening Ceremony on Friday that speeches were based around Tony Bloom's vision with the American Express sponsorship deal with both the club and community scheme. Hang on a minute - I thought the deal was done by Dick Knight and Peter Godfrey between 2008 and 2009. Or is the club trying to airbrush Dick out of the past?"
Credit where credit is due perhaps?
I think that John Campbell took Harty to court over an article in Gulls Eyes but it doesnt seem to have cost him much. This forum is self moderated by the 'holier than thou' brigade so not much liklehood of that happening to Bozza. Harty article this week should be interesting. Before anybody else suggests it I am not BG.
I think that John Campbell took Harty to court over an article in Gulls Eyes but it doesnt seem to have cost him much. This forum is self moderated by the 'holier than thou' brigade so not much liklehood of that happening to Bozza. Harty article this week should be interesting.
Before anybody else suggests it I am not BG.
I could tell you a tale of an NSC moderator being threatened with legal action (criminal, not civil) for failing to remove a post that upset someone in authority. The case was under police investigation for months, with the Crown Prosecution Service being pressed by the Chief Executive of a local authority to get the matter before the courts. The potential punishment wasn't a fine, btw. It was imprisonment.Goodness me Bozza, this argument of yours regarding your entire lifes finances being at risk because of something someone might post on NSC is getting rather tiresome! You make it sound like there are hundreds of poor website/internet forum owners getting regularly sued or shut down and bankrupted due to the actions of its users. There are hundreds if thousands of websites like NSC with millions of posts being made on them daily yet I dont recall seeing regular reports of people such as yourself being dragged through the courts and being made penniless and homeless and unable to provide for their children! Im not saying it doesnt happen but it isnt nearly as much of a risk as you make it out to be. I know its your site and you take the burden of all the risk but I think your house and finances are safe barring the most serious and sustained abuse which would have to continue unchecked for weeks if not months for NSC to pose any risk to you.
I could tell you a tale of an NSC moderator being threatened with legal action (criminal, not civil) for failing to remove a post that upset someone in authority. The case was under police investigation for months, with the Crown Prosecution Service being pressed by the Chief Executive of a local authority to get the matter before the courts. The potential punishment wasn't a fine, btw. It was imprisonment.
I can see both sides here - Barber 'posting' through Bozza does make it look as if Bozza is acting as a mouthpiece of the club - but I can also see the negative potential of PB getting involved in a slugfest with one or two I could name (but won't!) on here.Very much NOT this. Barber posting on here would be a TERRIBLE idea. Truly a dreadful idea. No possible good could come from the binfests that would ensue every time we didn't win 5-0. Look how Palace's board embarass themselves on the BBS.
If he wished to answer questions via the Ask The Club forum, I could see that working - but even then he'd be better doing it through insider.
As it is he addresses a range of posts via Bozza. this seems way, way more sensible than getting drawn into slanging matches he can't possibly win, and wasting hours in here like the rest of us.
Also being a chief executive of a local authority would give you no greater sway with the CPS than you or I have, the CPS make decisions on the weight of evidence not what job you have.
I can see both sides here - Barber 'posting' through Bozza does make it look as if Bozza is acting as a mouthpiece of the club - but I can also see the negative potential of PB getting involved in a slugfest with one or two I could name (but won't!) on here.
Perhaps it could be done along the lines of, 'in response to this question, PB issued the following statement" or something like that.
Didn't a former chief executive of a football club not a million miles away from The Amex, who also had a position in relation to the local police, leverage his status to have an Albion fan jailed for threatening behaviour, which seemed far in excess of the tariff for such a misdemeanor?
Very much this. Unless of course there is a certain element of "look at me, Paul Barber speaks to me, I'm important and know lots of what is going on at the club" behind it which I doubt is the reason