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Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
Now my first thinking is that when you make a comment and/or upload a picture the comment (and picture) DO NOT go live until I get to read and check them. The problem with this is I can't spend all day checking for new comments to allow access. It might be even a day before I can go through and check them. This does allow me to also check for rude/offensive comments. It would rather spoil the "flow" of the conversations.
Perhaps another option is to provide a login - logged in users get to see the comments and then when I've had time to check them they come out of the login into the public domain. Ideally I don't want to do this as it'd require a lot of coding and security and lots of people don't want to login.
Another option is to do away with the comments altogether! Right now the way I'm feeling about it all would be to throw in the towel altogether. I make no money from the site and with automation and AI it's getting far far too easy to be swamped with rubbish. The hosting ain't cheap and if I'm going to be threatened with litigation because of an image, or a review someone disapproves of, or a picture I took of in some foreign country upsets someone...
03/08/2026 11:33:39 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
Sorry for your troubles Ed and hope you can work through it. Like Ian said if it was I then I would hopefully make amends somehow. I posted an image only yesterday that I found on the GB500S, I suspect it was probably from Honda India. I will stop posting anything but own pictures. Would this also apply to links to other sites, are these links copyright in any way?
Like I said I'm really sorry and hope the pain is minimal, we'd miss you if you weren't here. Honest.
Upt.
03/08/2026 12:44:02 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
Thanks Upt'. Links apparently are fine!! However yeah I've been researching this and even if an image is edited, resized or trimmed it's still "IP", intellectual property. Heck even if you take a picture of a picture, or artwork, or seemingly whatever it can still be construed as IP.
It's really hard to know if an image posted is from the creator, ie yourself. What puzzles me is social media like FaceAche - loads of people will post a generic piccy of a bike from say Yamaha's web page with a comment like "this is my new bike". Do FB have people contacting them re IP hourly? Are they shelling out for this? Lord only knows.
I was advised I seek legal council then I looked at the costs of this. Yeah, easier and cheaper to cough up.
03/08/2026 12:56:47 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
03/08/2026 12:56:12 UTC
Ian Soady¹ said :-
I really hope you can continue Ren as this is one of the sanest and most useful bits of the WWW. If it's just images, is there some way of checking them for copyright before they're posted?
ps control enter doesn't work any more.....
03/08/2026 15:22:13 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
No Ian not really. Google has a search for images same as function but in this case the image was from one of the big "Stock Photos" websites and that image may not have been "seen" by Google yet. Also imagine the image was from a very recent post on say MCN - "Oooh look there's a new Triumph out" and someone posts on here an image of the new Triumph, google might not have indexed that image by the time I check it.
"Well if it looks professional?" Yeah you can usually tell if it's a professional pic of a new bike versus a pic some punter took at the recent bike show. However - if the recent pic from the bike show was taken off someone else's blog or social media account...
03/08/2026 15:31:56 UTC
ROD¹ said :-
Ren, I am sorry to hear of the copyright problems.
I have looked for information online and it looks like a legal minefield!
Some of the suggestions to protect the site seem OK for a lager site generating income, but would not be practical in your case.
Sorry that I can't be of any help.
I hope you can find a way forward.
03/08/2026 20:30:00 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
I think for now I'm going to (frustratingly) omit the ability to upload piccies. It's such a shame as that's one of the best bits about the chat.
04/08/2026 10:58:07 UTC
Snod said :-
And I was just getting around to posting pics of my con rods into repair chat..
Personally I think any regulars on here who are retired should be made moderators and can vet all submitted posts to pass the time. By this logic it'll just be myself and Ren who don't need to do anything, which seems perfect. All in favour say aye.
But in all seriousness this sucks for such a small/niche site.
04/08/2026 12:28:02 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
I suspect AI is playing it's part Snod. It'll be all too easy to give an AI a set of instructions "Go find images that look the same as the images we have in this folder". I'm using AI at work and to be frank in spite of the warnings and doom scenarios from YouTube developers it is very very good. You do have to check it's work that's fair, but it does good work. And that'll be the end of my current career.
04/08/2026 14:16:56 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
Just got back from Hartlepool after visiting Little Richie, the STrom is resplendent with a newly affixed front black round thing. Bridgestone A41 if you're interested. I can now report that the Weise waterproof leather pants work. Almost biblical rain at times on the way down and I just had a damp bottom bit on me t-shirt at the front where water had blown up. I should have zipped the pants to me coat, but I didn't.
Pffffffftttttt. Bike had a quick swill off upon its triumphant return.
Now back wom with a cuppa.
Upt.
04/08/2026 15:59:03 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
HARTLEPOOL! From Wooler to Hartlepool is - according to google maps - 75 miles. 150 mile round trip to get a tyre fitted? I suppose it'll be scrubbed in by the time you get home. Sheez. You are aware there's a big city of Newcastle and the big town of Sunderland closer to you? Heck even Edinburgh is closer to you. Either there's a shortage of tyre shops in the north east or Little Richie has other "attractions" to supplement his tyre business? Got me thinking I need to visit this tyre shop, see what it's all about. 127 miles from my place to Hartlepool.
04/08/2026 20:59:54 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
There's free tea to be had Ed. Sold (!) to the Manchester lad with a big mug.
04/08/2026 23:47:55 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
Are you at liberty to divulge the real business details of "Little Richie"?
I'm beginning to suspect this is actually a secret club of tyre fanatics from across the North East. They meet in darkened rooms under clandestine conditions wearing robes bearing brands like Michelin and Pirelli. They chant mantras such as "Thou shalt scrub thy new tyres in carefully" and "Check thy pressures weekly". They meditate to the sound of a vintage compressor and cheer when the little pressure release valve gives off a "PSSSFFFFT".
On the other hand if there's free tea it's worth the journey.
05/08/2026 08:16:57 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
Little Richie, the rubber fetishist. There's an image that'll keep me awake.
He was very perplexed yesterday, which replaced the normal, "what do you want you ugly git". The reason for this perplexitiscous behaviour waa a Chinese Scoot. Totally unbranded and even so on the V5. It was just a generic blob of plastic with an engine with no identifier anywhere, even the number plate dealer identification details were no use, "we just supplied the plates mate"?
Why was any of this an issue, because it had snapped a cable of strange sizing and no one knows where to buy a part from for a bike you can't ID. Might be a one off replacement to be manufactured which is worth more than the deliverers scoot. It was just two years old and a complete wreck.
But after a bit of chanting and psssting the job was complete under the cloaks of the Hartlepool Monkey Hangers. Just a tip, if you go to Hartlepool don't call em Monkey Hangers.
I'm almost dry today.
Pffffffftttttt or is that psssssssssst.
Upt.
05/08/2026 13:38:06 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
Wasps, I said blummin wasps. Is it rational to hate the stripey little blummin fingies. They're flying into that hole she said. That fetishists attire might come in handy.
Wasps! I hate Wasps, but is it rational.
Upt.
05/08/2026 13:41:57 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
I'm familiar with the Monkey Hanging tale Upt', I shall endeavour to not mention it when I'm collecting my free brew dressed in my latex waterproof jacket and pants. I wonder how the scoot got a V5 without any details on marque and model? Might be a fake V5 huh. And yeah I can imagine there's some rough Uber-Eats scooters out there. I was overtaken in a 30 zone recently by a scoot with a back box the size of a Victorian travel trunk. When the rider went around the roundabout it looked as though the rear wheel was either flat, the bearings had collapsed, or the contents of the trunk weighed more than the bike and rider combined. Probably all 3.
Calm down! They're only wasps.
06/08/2026 08:21:01 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
Thanks Ed, that helped. It also helped going up a blummin big ladder at 45° yesterday and spraying all kinds of crap in there. No stings to report.
I hate wasps.
06/08/2026 09:45:06 UTC
ROD¹ said :-
It's in the DNA of motorcyclists of a certain age to have a dislike of Vespas.
07/08/2026 15:10:07 UTC
nab301 said :-
Ren , I haven't been on here in a few days but that's a bummer with the copyright issues , as they say " a picture tells a thousand stories" hopefully you'll continue even if just with text while avoiding visits from the grammar police...
Nigel
08/08/2026 18:35:50 UTC
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