Should we make LB an 18+ website?

Originally Posted by Ginge

read the lot of this bollocks mate, but I don't feel a need to moderate my behaviour, and don't feel like underage users are infringing on my enjoyment of the site. Can't empathise with the plight from either side, think it's an oversensitive waste of time in all honesty.

How about from the legal standpoint, in that case? "Sensitivities" aside, there's an underlying potential legal issue with the current standard. With no age restriction, or mention to age outside of the small section in the privacy policy, you tread risky waters legally as the site owner in regard to COPPA, and the new reformations to the GDPR in Europe. Something which has the capacity to shut down the site, something I don't want to see happen. Regardless of whether there's a STRONG risk of this, to me is unimportant, as that potentiality exists. I don't want to see the site shutdown, because of something stupid like a member's age. An age restriction, and subsequent age verification mechanism helps to alleviate this on the basis of legality. As it said in the privacy policy, they do not collect data from children. But, without an age verification system, how is administration to determine who is a child, in order to refrain from data collection from those individuals?

Originally Posted by Ginge

read the lot of this bollocks mate, but I don't feel a need to moderate my behaviour, and don't feel like underage users are infringing on my enjoyment of the site. Can't empathise with the plight from either side, think it's an oversensitive waste of time in all honesty.

How about from the legal standpoint, in that case? "Sensitivities" aside, there's an underlying potential legal issue with the current standard. With no age restriction, or mention to age outside of the small section in the privacy policy, you tread risky waters legally as the site owner in regard to COPPA, and the new reformations to the GDPR in Europe. Something which has the capacity to shut down the site, something I don't want to see happen. Regardless of whether there's a STRONG risk of this, to me is unimportant, as that potentiality exists. I don't want to see the site shutdown, because of something stupid like a member's age. An age restriction, and subsequent age verification mechanism helps to alleviate this on the basis of legality. As it said in the privacy policy, they do not collect data from children. But, without an age verification system, how is administration to determine who is a child, in order to refrain from data collection from those individuals?