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If you have some questions, you can make a thread in the Promote Yourself section and see if you get any responses.

Kuke is right, this is ultimately a question for the admin. I don't know about the legality of you just quoting random posts. The site is owned/operated in the UK so I assume their privacy laws would apply. It's above my pay grade. I also don't know if your university has any rules about getting permission to use people's responses. As a user here, no, I personally wouldn't feel good about you quoting any of my posts in your paper without my express permission. Despite the fact that anyone can read anything here, it would feel invasive.

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I’ll second FA and say any quoting without the expressed permission of the OP isn’t cool. I’m also not sure which nation’s privacy laws apply to the content posted here, you probably need our admin’s permission too. Then there’s the issue of referencing any quotes you gather.

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25 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

A goat, an orca, and wait is my Av still Cthulhu I forget…

I don't have the keenest vision myself...but I always thought your avatar looked like a kangaroo standing way up on top of Uluru blowing a didgeridoo while chowing down on some fairy bread with a nice thick layer of vegemite under the hundreds & thousands so they won't fall off and blow away in the stiff breeze they get up there this time of year.

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I'd suggest:

* Send a PM to anyone you want to quote that way people can give consent/decline without having to divulge any personal information

* I am no expert but I imagine there's a GDPR consideration here based on the forum being in the UK and the type of content you want to quote (although it would depend on where the servers that contain all the data are hosted - Invision who power this board are a US company but offer hosting abroad also)

 

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Navybsn"s may I quote what you said for my English essay?

 

I understand about the whole quoting thing and stuff. To put some back round on this essay basically my teacher wanted me to join a group online and see how you guys interact, see how the forum works and maybe even get some quotes from you guys on some things that you say. I know it's all random and I'm sorry. I will not quote anyone that does not want to be quoted.

8 hours ago, SurgicalBrute said:

I'm not necessarily saying Id have an issue with it, depending on what you're looking to quote, but I would like to know what it is you're trying to analyze about the forum

 

Basically I'm just trying to see how you guys interact with each other, with me, see your status in this forum, know what this forum is about and how it works. Stuff like that.

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20 minutes ago, EricM said:

Basically I'm just trying to see how you guys interact with each other, with me, see your status in this forum, know what this forum is about and how it works. Stuff like that.

Let me guess...Sociology? 😁

I don't know if you need some other permission from the admin or anything, but for what it's worth, if I accidentally say anything moderately intelligent (😜) you're more than welcome to quote me for your project

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37 minutes ago, EricM said:

Basically I'm just trying to see how you guys interact with each other, with me, see your status in this forum, know what this forum is about and how it works. Stuff like that.

But why this forum specifically?

We all know how good we are, but the outside world is not as easily convinced.

 

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16 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

But why this forum specifically?

We all know how good we are, but the outside world is not as easily convinced.

 

Well my English teacher had linked different online forums to join and talk to people on. Idk if this is considered metal but I do like a lot of rock music, my dad and I enjoy Metallica a lot especially their album Fade to Black, and I figured Rock and Metal were somewhat similar if not the same and well hey I do love rock so I thought people like you who I would definitely converse with would be perfect to write about.

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I don't have a problem with that, I'm just interested in how he chose the forum. It's never been a forum that comes up first in a google search for me. It's far from the busiest forum. And I'm just asking questions for the sake of finding out useless information.

 

Just now, EricM said:

Well my English teacher had linked different online forums to join and talk to people on. Idk if this is considered metal but I do like a lot of rock music, my dad and I enjoy Metallica a lot especially their album Fade to Black, and I figured Rock and Metal were somewhat similar if not the same and well hey I do love rock so I thought people like you who I would definitely converse with would be perfect to write about.

And now I can add this to my useless facts file, thank you :)

 

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