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Originally Posted by AngelBlue

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.

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....