Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3485828-20140722174414/@comment-24700384-20140731210918

Ghost Anubis wrote: I'm going to the dr & don't really have time to debate this. I just wanted to say that the 18-25 idea is a terrible one. Secondly, I agree that kids or young teens shouldn't solicit their age. However, if somebody wishes to do so that's their prerogative, on many peoples profiles they have links to their websites, facebooks, or twitters. If somebody wishes to mention their age in public domain that's entirely up to them, & you can't stop them from doing it. Many people in chat have said their age before, or said their real name. That's their personal choice, & it's not up to us to decide what they should or shouldn't be able to do. Very true, they can do as they please on teh internet, but it IS up to the site's administration for what they will allow users to distribute across their network, and they CAN stop whatever they see fit to.

The sites you mentioned as being linked in profiles allow for public privacy, and full disclosure of information only when expressly granted by the owner of said information. If these tools aren't used to protect yourself, that mistake is on the end user, and the site is absolved of blame. This site has no such measures in place, and as such can be liable for whatever comes of misuse of freely distributed user information, unless expressly forbidden in the ToS. Even then, in our current litigious state, someone could find a loophole to blame them.....anyone else remember McDonald's getting sued over their coffee being hot and dropped into someones lap? Current societal conditions mandate that everyone must be told "don't do that" in no uncertain terms by anyone in any small way affliated with them when presented the opportunity to do so, or perhaps be held liable for staying silent. It's a terrible state to find ourselves in, but none the less, it exists. The measure I and others speak of prevents the site from ever suffering punitive damages or damages to it's reputation, should someone take it upon themselves to use what it allows to be shared on it's network for harm in any form, as well as protecting the end user from their own mistakes.

If you had read the rest of the postings, the 18-25 had a point beyond a numerically restrictive age, and was quickly dismissed by me later on when a more perfectly defined consensus was reached.