Agreed, however this is one more step.

next thing u will know. you will need a credit card to verify ur 18 yrs and older.

Updated
Minimum Age is now configurable, also added a per Forum setting.

Kirby, I've been waiting for this for so long.

Unfortunately, it will not install. It gives an error (which flashes by too quickly to catch).

Cause the developers had nothing else to do / wanted to keep customers satisfied?
I don't see the point in doing any age verification or whatsoever, regardless of what site it is, unless there is some biometric identification enforced... Which first of all, does not exist yet / does exist but is too expensive for average user, and second of all, even if someone is wealthy enough to buy a biometric authorization, then that can be hacked too :rolleyes: Too early to even think about such restrictions, anyway.

Could someone edit their birthdate to bypass this in a certain forum?

This is interesting to me, but I am curious about being able to lock in the birthdate without being able to be editted unless it's through the admincp.

THAT is a good idea.

Another thing, if the user doesn't input their birth year, what happens then?

If you require them to enter their birthday on registration, does it not ask for the birth year as well?

I believe there is also a hack that will ask users to update their profile fields before they can participate further in the site - Could be adapted to birthdays and then you lock them out of editing it in the future :)

Satan

Not everyone is dishonest about their age. 5% effectiveness is still better than 0.