18+ yay or nay?

[Lord Snot]

I'd be happy to have an "adults only" section, and let teens in. It can be hard being a teen who has adopted a different lifestyle from friends and family, and may need support from online communities the most.

I like this suggestion.

 

[Forster]

I certainly don't mind adult themed threads nor the occasional NSFW pic, but do people really want a veg*n forum with a link to your favorite porn site thread? I know it's easy enough to avoid and certainly nothing I haven't seen before but really it's a bit of a turn off. Porn is already all over the interwebs for those wanting to view it, do we really want it here?

 

[hungryraccoon]

I like the idea for an adult subsection of the forums with the rest of the site accessible to minors.

Me too. I was part of another forum that had a subsection for 18+ members. You had to have a certain amount of posts before you could pm the admin to request permission to enter. Although there were people who lied about their age it generally stopped the very young younguns from getting in.

 

[Mel]

For those who want to exclude minors, may I ask why?

 

[Spang]

For those who want to exclude minors, may I ask why?

They don't appreciate good music.

 

[Mel]

They don't appreciate good music.

But we're not a music board.

 

[Envy]

Porn music obviously.

 

[beancounter]

I certainly don't mind adult themed threads nor the occasional NSFW pic, but do people really want a veg*n forum with a link to your favorite porn site thread? I know it's easy enough to avoid and certainly nothing I haven't seen before but really it's a bit of a turn off. Porn is already all over the interwebs for those wanting to view it, do we really want it here?

In one of the other boards Michael started, there was a post your favorate porn site thread that was very popular. How was I supposed to know VBer's (most of who joined that site) would start to become prudish over the past few years.

 

[Digger]

I don't think people want to exclude minors per se, only that the type of board they want would be unsuitable for minors. My biggest issue isn't actually foul language, but the amount of flirting and sex talk that naturally occurs on forums like this. It would totally skeeve me out if I ever found out after the fact that someone I was talking trash with ended up being a 15 year-old. I've seen that happen on other forums.

 

[sleepydvdr]

I.S., is it at all possible for the forum to censor curse words for minors and hide certain sections from them based on the age they claim to be? It would be nice to be unfiltered as adults, yet when minors read the forum, it is filtered for them.

 

[Second Summer]

I.S., is it at all possible for the forum to censor curse words for minors and hide certain sections from them based on the age they claim to be? It would be nice to be unfiltered as adults, yet when minors read the forum, it is filtered for them.

I don't think that's possible as far as I know.

 

[Wolfie]

I belonged to another forum where certain subforums were 18+ and password protected. The owner did it to keep from getting himself sued when mom and dad don't watch their kids online and instead expect every site to be kid friendly. Anyway, worked well. I'd hate to exclude them totally.

 

[sleepydvdr]

I don't think that's possible as far as I know.

I'm not surprised this kind of feature doesn't exist, but it seems to me like there could be a very big demand for such a thing. Although I'm not a programmer, I know something like that would be reasonably easy to implement. Well, maybe someday a web forum programmer will read my comment and say "wow, this guy has an incredible idea. I'll jump on that right now!".

 

[FortyTwo]

I am not vegkid and I am above the age of eighteen years old. If I was vegkid, I'd probably be very pleased with the overwhelming support of not only myself and the other youth that wish to join, but of the amending of the site to allow for such.

So what's the verdict here? In all seriousness, I'd love to be able to be on here without feeling like some sort of fugitive.

 

[Second Summer]

I will probably end up modifying the rules to allow for ages 13+, but it will have to wait until tomorrow when I hopefully can find the time.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

I certainly don't mind adult themed threads nor the occasional NSFW pic, but do people really want a veg*n forum with a link to your favorite porn site thread? I know it's easy enough to avoid and certainly nothing I haven't seen before but really it's a bit of a turn off. Porn is already all over the interwebs for those wanting to view it, do we really want it here?

I don't see the problem with this thread. It's in a subforum you have to opt-in to see, and it's just links in an appropriately titled thread. It's not like i's tons of NSFW pics posted all over the forum.

 

[Forster]

Well whatever, not really that big of a deal to me, just seems like a weird combo porn links and vegetarian info. Exploitation of people = okay, exploitation of animals = bad and no real way to keep teens from accessing the info on the board = whatever.

 

[FortyTwo]

Well if people don't actually want to see it, like myself, then they won't. If teens are so intent on getting at material like that then, like you said, there's nothing stopping them from using the rest of the internet to find it. So it's sort-of a lost cause to protest it, it's about as locked off as it can get. Only people who actually want in will go there, and they should be trusted to make that decision themselves - after all, it is the internet.

 

[Spang]

In light of the censoring of naughty words, I've decided to vote yes. However, I would like to see uncensored naughty words and minors coexisting on this message board.

 

[Wolfie]

I don't get the censoring of dirty words myself. If they are 13+, they've heard them unless they've been raised under a rock. Heck, my 7 year old nephew knows them all (and he DID NOT learn them from me.)