- sharpace77
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Duardo: This thread is locked for being stupid.
cortana 5 : It's perpetually my time of the month and I'm just grouchy.
Foman: I see absolutely no reason, either theoretical or practical, that this is not a superb idea. Excellent work, my friend.
Generally, I'm of the mindset that people should be allowed to choose for themselves what they are exposed to and there should be as few restrictions as possible in an attempt to encourage this, but I've come to the realization that it is having an arguably negative effect on the community.
In this instance, I speak specifically about the rules against religion, politics, and other questionable topics. While I understand the rules against them (and even agree in most cases), we cannot deny that there is at least a desire to discuss these topics. Unfortunately, Bungie/Archy/the mods/whoever has/have decided that the community is too immature at this point to allow these topics to exist, and, to be honest, I agree.
That said, I believe that there is potential to allow these topics on the PUBLIC forums. What I propose are age specific forums. I'm not even going to bring up the fact that, technically, this entire site should be 17+ since that's completely unrealistic. But I don't think it's crazy to be of the opinion that forums like The Flood would benefit from an age restriction. This would reduce the amount of input by more immature members (not to insinuate that age is directly related to maturity, but there is a pattern), and allow for more questionable topics to be discussed.
To expand further on that, groups could add an age limit so that younger members can't access the questionable content that we all know is there. Again, I'm not intentionally picking on younger members, but I am definitely of the opinion that implementing something like this would cut down on some of the immaturity that takes place in these forums, specifically the flood.
Now I know people could simply lie about their age, and I'm sure that would happen. But a system like this still has great potential to catch a majority of users.
Thoughts on this? Alternatives? It's late and I'll probably have a completely different opinion in the morning, but at the very least I think it's worth discussing.