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Paperdreams. · 13-07-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ~invisible~girl~

First off, most other websites I've been on haven't allowed kids under 13 to post in on discussion boards or forums, or enter chatrooms at all. That's mainly because in the US there are laws prohibiting websites from collecting information from kids under 13 without their parents permission (I know at one point Neopets had a form that parents could sign and send in by fax to let their kids use certain parts of the site), but my understanding is that the laws in the UK are less strict. So it's hard to compare RYL to other sites that have kids under 13 on them as I don't actually know any such sites.

In RYL v2, we had a rule saying no-one under the age of thirteen could join. However, this didn't work and we were still getting younger people joining. The thing is, seeing as this is a support site, we're not going to tell someone under thirteen to leave the site, simply because they've joined because they need help.

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Just recently a person posted a thread titled "Tattoo Help" in General. Harley has posted that threads about Tattoo, piercings and sex questions go in "General Support and Advice". Now I can understand a poster not being aware of the criteria and I can understand a busy mod not seeing such a post - however that post was up for 6 days. Not 6 minutes, not 6 hours - 6 days ( http://recoveryourlife.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=7900 )

But, that was one thread. If someone had sent an alert in, then I bet that would have gone within the day. You don't see many threads that don't get moved when they should have done. And, to be honest, RYL is better moderated than any other forums that I've been on, that the odd thread in the wrong forum doesn't really make much of a difference.

13-07-2007, 05:28 PM	#66
Paperdreams. ..honey. RYL Sponsor Join Date: Jan 2005	Quote: Originally Posted by ~invisible~girl~ First off, most other websites I've been on haven't allowed kids under 13 to post in on discussion boards or forums, or enter chatrooms at all. That's mainly because in the US there are laws prohibiting websites from collecting information from kids under 13 without their parents permission (I know at one point Neopets had a form that parents could sign and send in by fax to let their kids use certain parts of the site), but my understanding is that the laws in the UK are less strict. So it's hard to compare RYL to other sites that have kids under 13 on them as I don't actually know any such sites. In RYL v2, we had a rule saying no-one under the age of thirteen could join. However, this didn't work and we were still getting younger people joining. The thing is, seeing as this is a support site, we're not going to tell someone under thirteen to leave the site, simply because they've joined because they need help. Quote: Just recently a person posted a thread titled "Tattoo Help" in General. Harley has posted that threads about Tattoo, piercings and sex questions go in "General Support and Advice". Now I can understand a poster not being aware of the criteria and I can understand a busy mod not seeing such a post - however that post was up for 6 days. Not 6 minutes, not 6 hours - 6 days ( http://recoveryourlife.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=7900 ) But, that was one thread. If someone had sent an alert in, then I bet that would have gone within the day. You don't see many threads that don't get moved when they should have done. And, to be honest, RYL is better moderated than any other forums that I've been on, that the odd thread in the wrong forum doesn't really make much of a difference.
Paperdreams. ..honey. RYL Sponsor Join Date: Jan 2005	"When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.”