Thanks for your responses. Yes, I'm running a 13+ site, so "mixed ages" would be the demographic description. And no, the age restriction is not to head off any legal liability. There's a crafting marketplace section that we want restricted to users who are 18+ because having minors active in the marketplace creates notorious headaches. We do have the age restrictions clearly outlined in the forum's rules and TOS, so that "safeguard" (if you could even call it that) does exist, at least.
Yes, people can lie about their age when they register; and yes, any mod that does this would rely on people's honesty. The system isn't perfect, but we're trying to work with what's available/possible. We are fully aware of how impractical, ridiculous, pointless, etc. etc. etc., ad nauseam, it is to implement an age-restricted mod, but such a feature *would* prevent at least *some* problems for us. The forum I'm running attracts a very particular demographic and is built largely on honesty and reputation, and surprising as it may seem, the vast majority of users do not lie about their birth dates (our demographic is not 14-year-old boys trying to access adult content).
So to rise above the side discussion of how pointless it is to even want such a mod, and to get back to the point of the thread, my question still stands: Are age-restricted channels possible with VB 5? ForceHSS said no, so that is what I'm going to assume -- unless anyone else can confirm otherwise?
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05-26-2014, 09:16 PM
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