new moderator for Unwedchastity

Angelina Countries like to maintain control over their citizens and do what they can to prevent their citizens from shpping for more favorable jurisdictions. If they truly want to combat what gets posted on this site, they will go after any person with a shred of responsibility they can get their hands on, whether you or I feel that is justified or not.

This can have some unforeseen results, like when an 18-year-old British boy was planning to visit his slightly younger long-distant boyfriend in France and was at risk of falling afoul of British sex tourism laws, created with the idea of middle-aged men buying an underage hooker's services in some small island country, despite French age-of-consent laws being met and the couple's relationship being that of a loving, enthusiastically consenting couple.

For a more recent and visible example, see the EU's attempts to enforce GDPR compliance on US-run sites.

That said, I believe curious is also overestimating the exposure a bit. Sure, ISPs can see that you are interacting with the site, but that is about all the info that can be gotten out of them. You need access to UWC's servers to do much more, and while that certainly is possible, authorities have bigger fish to fry than going through that effort to go after a place that has nothing more problematic than misterpoll.

Angelina but we are not a german forum, so the legal situation in germany is irrelevant

I am afraid that's wrong.
Legal principle in Germany is, that a case must be filed with the court where the law breaking happened. When it comes to the Internet, that means wherever you can read the content. In other words, because you can read the forum from everywhere in Germany, as. Prosecutor you can file charges in any court you like.
Where the forum is hosted or owned is irrelevant, where it can be read, only that matters.

youdontknowme see the EU's attempts to enforce GDPR compliance on US-run sites.

I can't claim to know every instance of this, but most of the ones I am familiar with all deal with multinational corporations that do buisness in Europe. IE they have corporate branches and servers in EU countries, accept payment in euros through EU banks, ship goods to European customers from warehouses located in Europe, and/or make active efforts to maintain a European customer base. Very different than a site like this where the only connection to the EU is that some people from the EU connect to it.

Of course, if someone is a German citizen and/or is in Germany when they connect to this site then they are bound by German law and can be prosecuted if their conduct here breaks it, but I can't really speak to how that might go since I am nether German nor a lawyer, let alone a German Lawyer.

Laura I need someone who has enough time

That is always the sticking point. I would be willing to devote some time to the health of this community but I couldn't do it on my own and I don't think many of us could. Maby a team of part-time volunteers could manage it but then someone needs to manage the team.

pestulens That is always the sticking point

More time than me, if more specific

Laura If you are interested in help then let's talk about it via PM. I get the impression from looking at your responses so far that it's not really you. If it is the case then say so openly.

pestulens For moderators, I have no idea.

But yes, Störerhaftung has been a pain in the posterior of people trying to offer a free Wifi hotspot.

There the issue would be generally using your external IP to commit "copyright infringement".

Joh I get the impression from looking at your responses so far that it's not really you

What do you mean?

Laura The discussion of s new Moderator IS now running 7 days and your only comments was He/she must have more time than you.
No further talk with the members who offered help. No information what task need to be done, how it should be done, in wich time frame a reaction is expected.
Apart from that, the least you could do would be to say thank you for the offer to help.

Even if there is no legal basis for holding you accountable for the forum itself, an overzealous prosecutor might make a case that your actions or inactions may have contributed to someone's daughter getting abused, and that your position of power means you could have prevented that but failed to do so. While I personally very much doubt that such a case would arise or that, if it arose, it would lead to a judgment against you, there is still a non-zero chance that it might cause you a headache somewhere down the line.

That said, between online anonymity, encrypted network connections and the fact that the server is not hosted in reach of German authorities, I find such a threat to be a purely theoretical scenario.