Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-7153552-20130619222547/@comment-10207438-20130621220521

PsijicThief wrote: I don't know why we would need to parent for the parents. There are plenty of internet guardian software packages out there that can filter tons of different content, and if the person in question owns the game, then somebody had to buy it for them. In my opinion, if the parent bought the game they can't be angry about what is said in relation to that, so long as we are doing our part to keep the forums and main space as clean as possible, in comparison to the game itself. well the whole parenting thing is a rather slippery slope, most parents see video games as childrens toys, sure they'll avoid getting games with blood, gore, and sexual materials on the cover, but most non gamer parents are just plain terrible when it comes to the rating systems, and unlike video games, the internet is known to be just plain filled with terrible things, and if they think, hey this is that game Jimmy's been playing non stop for the past five months, then they check the forum and see people saying things that their childs sensitive little mind shouldn't be allowed to see or hear, and that it's the site owners fault that children can be exposed to this even though it's up to the parents to moniter their children. I don't like it, nor am I really recommending it, but if some idiot parent wants to pursue legal matters then it would be easier to remove a problem before it happens.