Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3485828-20140722174414/@comment-4915037-20140724004107

DarthOrc wrote: Just a reminder - Just as with movies, it is not illegal for a 12 y.o. to play a M rated game, if their parent/guardian permits them to. The same is true for participating in chat about a M rated game. In the case of chat, we personally feel the parent/guardian should supervise closely, but that is only our opinion - parents have rights. Of course it's not "illegal", any more than a kid or his parents would go to jail if the kid visited this site. It's just highly inappropriate and, much more importantly, a violation of the terms of use of the Web site. They are there for a pretty good reason, which is that grown adults interacting anonymously with children is incredibly creepy and disgusting. I'd rather not be forced into being creepy and disgusting without knowing it because the site won't police its terms of use, which I also signed. This is a very striking conversation here, and I'm showing it to a lot of people I know on Facebook, and most of the comments are funnier than my replies here but also against the spirit of constructive conversation about the topic and this site, so I won't share them.