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Age to participate on your forum

How old do you have to be to use your forum?

  • 13 and up

    Votes: 3 60.0%

  • Any age

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 18 and up

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • Total voters
    5
Shawn Gossman

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Do you require members be a specific age to be able to participate on your forum?

Take the poll below and feel free to share your thoughts on this.
 
Anime is a all ages thing like Pokémon and Digimon are kid anime, so I allow 13 and up. But I do have age restricted section that is accessible via a custom field, but I have a disclaimer that states that my site is not responsible for any underage person getting into the age restricted section.
 
Cedric said:
I do not allow anyone under 18 on ANY of my sites.
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Used to, 13 and up for me.

However, I almost feel like there is just too much liability in allowing juveniles.

So, now it's 18+ only. I know that means I might lose membership, but I feel it's the safer way of running a community.
 
Shawn Gossman said:
Used to, 13 and up for me.

However, I almost feel like there is just too much liability in allowing juveniles.

So, now it's 18+ only. I know that means I might lose membership, but I feel it's the safer way of running a community.
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Which is honestly for the better. As you say, less risk on liabilities. And plus, anyone under 18 is most likely not on forums or similar sites. They have other media channels to attend to. I don't think we're losing out much by restricting access to minus 18.
 
Cedric said:
Which is honestly for the better. As you say, less risk on liabilities. And plus, anyone under 18 is most likely not on forums or similar sites. They have other media channels to attend to. I don't think we're losing out much by restricting access to minus 18.
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I agree.

Now 15-20 years ago, I'd disagree.

Back then, a lot of kids were using forums. A lot of those kids are adults now who still use forums. But these new generations? Nah. They don't even know what a forum is.
 
Cedric said:
I do not allow anyone under 18 on ANY of my sites.
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You're not interested in dealing with kids 😂

Shawn Gossman said:
Used to, 13 and up for me.

However, I almost feel like there is just too much liability in allowing juveniles.

So, now it's 18+ only. I know that means I might lose membership, but I feel it's the safer way of running a community.
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Most of the forums I started with was from 13 years up but there's usually a problem with them kids because they don't really pay attention to the rules.

It's why I feel more comfortable bumping it up to 18 years and above now.
 
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