Dealing with "teens" on your site?

[MPDev]

I'm curious how people handle teenagers registering on their site. Does anyone have special conditions setup for teens (say under 16) that limit their posting/reading capabilities?

I'm thinking of establishing a teen usergroup, but not entirely sure how to automatically move those with birthdates in the < 17 range into their own. I've added Andreas mod for the no registrations under 18, but am considering adding some forums for teens to give them a reason to use their real age.

[PennylessZ28]

You could use the built in promotions system to promote teens into the noraml user group once they are 17+.

My forum is open to all, although I haven't had any youngins register yet.

[Andreas]

You can not use the promotions system, as it does not offer a condition for userage

As the primary target audience of Planet-Liebe are teenagers, there are no restrictions at all.
Though, our moderators have to be very observant to catch and remove unsuitable posts.

[EricaJoy]

We had a similar issue on my board recently. We have a forum called Fetish (I'll let you use your imagination about its contents) and a young lady registered and posted there. It caused quite the commotion (understandably so). I took that opportunity to restrict access to that forum to people over the age of 18 using the mod Andreas made. I think any forum that has discussions that are of an "adult" nature should use the same restrictions.

[Hellcat]

I think the whole userage thing doesn't work anyway - as long as you don't request a copy of their ID card....
I can signup everywhere and just enter 12/6/1923 as my date of birth....

On my forum we try to get all areas as clean as possible.
Offensive stuff (if only for teens or in general) get's moved into the "MODs only" forum - away from from the public.

We then have a special forum section that only members of a special group can even see.
ATM people are moved (and picked) into this group by hand.

[Lea Verou]

Most teens are a pain in the @$$, especially the ones under 15...
They have terrible spelling, post useless threads and make even more useless posts.
I wish I could restrict my forum to 15+ but such a restriction is not possible due to the nature of the internet...

[TruthElixirX]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Most teens are a pain in the @$$, especially the ones under 15...
They have terrible spelling, post useless threads and make even more useless posts.
I wish I could restrict my forum to 15+ but such a restriction is not possible due to the nature of the internet...

Not all of us are so bad. (I was 15 a month ago.).

Teenagers that get banned are the worst. They won't go away. We usually have to report them to their ISP. Sometimes we can find their parents phone numbers and send them a PM threatening to call their parents. ^_^. That generally makes them stop.

This is of course banning them several times and asking them to stop.

[Lea Verou]

I said "most teens". Some of them are really good members but the majority sucks

[Lizard King]

Usually we donot allow people under 16 to register our boards. We only accept with referrals and referrals are also responsible for the people they referred.

[Zachariah]

All people get the same on my site.
Age is not a factor.

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