Well as an admin, your the one who owns or controls the forum. If you decide to have an 18+ forum then that is your responsibility to deal with. This mod is an age lock; it is supposed to stop those underage from entering the forum, its not a mod to "hide" the forums, I agree with Stuie, there is no point to that. Just put your members straight dont be bullied by those under 18. Its simple your forum says "over 18's" only. Plus its obviously 18+ for a reason most likely involving the law, so really there is no arguement.

Its like going into a porn shop under 18 and complaining to the shopkeeper you can't buy anything. You can see the shop and what it is, but are under age to purchase; tough luck. You wouldnt go inside kicking up a fuss now lol

Ive had great success with this mod, my forum says clearly its 18+ for a reason and ive had no complaints or "drama". The ironic thing is; most of my members are under 18 anyway ;)

My forum places great importance on users being honest, due to the sensitive nature of the topics we deal with.

Therefore, encouraging <18 year old visitors to lie about their age when they sign up just so they can access the 'adult' forum is a bad thing. Not only does it encourage them towards bad ways, but it also undermines the culture of honesty which I am proud of on my forum.

Can I use this hack to disallow all under-age members to view any forum? I know I can do this by editing all 190 forums one by one, but I am not going to do that. Is there a global way to cut under-aged members off from viewing all forums?

Yes, and there is only one chance to register, not two. If they get it wrong first time, then I wouldnt be inclined to call it an honest forum. You never know who lies about their age out there, and still as the admin or an admin of the forum you are responsible of trusting your users and ensuring the over 18 forums are as censored as much as possible.

I can see where you come from regarding hiding the forums, but then again you could hide those adult forums from guest view anyhow in addition to the age lock. If they lie at registeration then they can access the offending forum whether hidden or restricted to under 18s like this mod. However they are less likely to lie for the specific reason of wanting to access adult content.

I really cant see the difference....

Works beautifully!

Testing...thanks....

Why aren't my moderators and/or administrators immune to the Age lock??

is there a 3.7 version of this?

on 3.7 too

Its great hack, because it doesnt work in 3.7!!!!