18 and over forum

by **azezzo** on Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:17 am

with the current changes to the forum being made, i suggest we have a forum for members over the age of 18

Specifics:
a member would need to be over 18 to view certain forums

This will improve the following aspects of the site:
having an age restricted forum would protect the children and all the other sensitive members who view the forum, allowing more liberal speech and posting of pictures for adults who are not concerned with being easily offended thus reducing people sending e tickets on abusive members.

by **lozzini** on Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:19 am

azezzo wrote:with the current changes to the forum being made, i suggest we have a forum for members over the age of 18

Specifics:
a member would need to be over 18 to view certain forums

This will improve the following aspects of the site:
having an age restricted forum would protect the children and all the other sensitive members who view the forum, allowing more liberal speech and posting of pictures for adults who are not concerned with being easily offended thus reducing people sending e tickets on abusive members.

people could just lie?

by **PLAYER57832** on Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:43 am

azezzo wrote:with the current changes to the forum being made, i suggest we have a forum for members over the age of 18

Specifics:
a member would need to be over 18 to view certain forums

This will improve the following aspects of the site:
having an age restricted forum would protect the children and all the other sensitive members who view the forum, allowing more liberal speech and posting of pictures for adults who are not concerned with being easily offended thus reducing people sending e tickets on abusive members.

I proposed something earlier, the opposite, though --a parent/child clan. However, CC would just have no way to verify this. As a clan, it could have a lot tighter rules and could even be hidden, by invitation only.

However, I think a better question is why? That is, yes, I understand "why", but why would it belong here? Aren't there plenty of places where people can talk however they wish with no restrictions? Seems the problem is not having open forums, its more having places where certain things are not brought up.

by **Woodruff** on Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:51 am

azezzo wrote:with the current changes to the forum being made, i suggest we have a forum for members over the age of 18
Specifics:
a member would need to be over 18 to view certain forums
This will improve the following aspects of the site:
having an age restricted forum would protect the children and all the other sensitive members who view the forum, allowing more liberal speech and posting of pictures for adults who are not concerned with being easily offended thus reducing people sending e tickets on abusive members.

It seems like the only way they could enforce the age restriction for something like this would be to REQUIRE the use of a credit card just to create an account on the site. There are a lot of folks (I am one) who would NOT be willing to do this, meaning that the NEW userbase for the site would dwindle sharply.

by **Rocketry** on Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:29 am

You mean you want flame wars back? I'm sure that an specificly over 18s forum woulld just attract flaming.

Rocket.

by **hecter** on Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:06 am

An 18+ forum would attract one thing and one thing only: Kids.

by **azezzo** on Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:28 am

i normally did not visit the flame wars forum, and that wasnt my intention of this suggestion, but i can see the validity and usefullness of having a flame wars forum.