Make the forum for any age

[Isource]

I legit joined when I was 12 and got banned for a fucking year because I wasnt 13.
Whats the point of having a 13+ rule if its a fucking minecraft forum.

 

[Isource]

I, for one, prefer to keep my sanity.

How is your “sanity” relevant to this

 

[casket]

13+ this is for the law[DOUBLEPOST=1544155480][/DOUBLEPOST]

How is your “sanity” relevant to this

cause its to comply with the COPPA

 

[apathetic]

people on this forums are dumb enough already, if this happened I would leave this site forever

 

[Isource]

This forum has enough immaturity as it is.... I Rather not have to deal with actual little kids on top of it...

Trek blender

 

[Hitoo]

cause its to comply with the COPPA
13+ is the law.
so eat my fucking 6.9.0 incher

 

[Isource]

most recent rep neg, last pos last month, good luck selling anything bitch

What are you on

 

[X8.]

I legit joined when I was 12 and got banned for a fucking year because I wasnt 13.
Whats the point of having a 13+ rule if its a fucking minecraft forum.

No.

 

[Ivain]

The point is legal reasons. You may not have heard of something called the COPPA (Child Online Privacy Protection Act), but it requires explicit parental consent for websites to collect identifiable information about anyone under the age of 13. This is also the reason why games like Runescape had that "I'm 13 years or older" thing.
Since getting and checking the explicit permission for every single account made here that is under that age would be a lot of work and a legal liability, MCM decided to ban people that are 13 years old from the site.
As for the reason sites like PMC or MinecraftForum don't prohibit <12 members from joining, I can only guess. Perhaps they have the resources to take care of the legal matters. Perhaps they don't collect as much information as MCM does (this site collects a higher-than-average amount of identifiable information in the process to try to help catch ban evaders etc). I really don't know.

But that is the reason why the site does not allow anyone under 13 to join up. However, as we all know, what we don't know can't hurt us. If you make an account at age 10 and nobody finds out you're under 13 before you turn 13, there's probably not gonna be a problem. Unlike with Paypal, you won't get retroactively banned if you admit it after you turn 13 (at least you didnt when I was mod, idk if this has changed)

Edit: Oh and as others have mentioned, this site includes real-money transactions. I'm sure there's a host of other legal reasons involved there.

 

[Inherit]

What good would bringing under 13 y/o do? They would spam the forums with their shit and I doubt they have anything of value to contribute here.

 

[hmmThatsCool]

Because some actions on this forum can involve irl money, and there is also chances of being scammed.

 

[Lachlan]

Because kids have no sense of what money is and how to spend it and are extremely vulnerable to getting scammed aswell as pretty much everything that has been mentioned above.

 

[Mick]

I see no reason to remove our 13+ age requirement, there are only disadvantages to it. With our new suspension times you won't be suspended for a year in the future for it either.

Denied, thanks for the suggestion.