18+ Board (Poll)

[Silversea]

I agree with Jennifer.

Many users may support this, but it isn't practical and serves little purpose.

 

[unravel]

I approve
buuut... The mods are gonna close the thread soon...

 

[rosiekitty405]

I'm not 18+ but I'd say it'd be a waste of time imo.
No need really at least you aren't as limited on topics as you are on
ACC. You can hardly post any topics and I am not a fan of that.
So im going to agree with Jennifer. I just think itd be a waste of
Time because younger users are going to end up there and its just going
To get taken down anyway. So once again even though in not 18+ this
Is probably never going to happen imo. But goodluck trying I guess

 

[oath2order]

Ignore this post. Delete please?

 

[SockHead]

It's going to get locked if people keep saying it's going to get locked.

I haven't heard a real good argument against having the 18+ board other than it will make kids jealous. That's precisely the type of attitude I'm trying to avoid.

 

[Kaiaa]

I don't see a need for an 18+ board. Just because someone may be a certain age doesn't mean they are at a maturity level associated with 18+ topics. We wouldn't be lifting any topic restrictions (prohibited content in the Rules) if we ever made such a board.

The main goal of the said 18+ board would probably be to talk to other 18+ members but I honestly don't see a reason that we'd need to make a board specifically for meeting other 18+ members.

Point is, this is an Animal Crossing website. If you want to talk about mature things, the Bell Tree isn't the best place to do it, even in an 18+ board. Of course, this is just my opinion and it may or may not be shared with other staff members.

I guess I should add, what is the goal of the 18+ board you'd like to see? What would be discussed?

 

[SockHead]

I don't see a need for an 18+ board. Just because someone may be a certain age doesn't mean they are at a maturity level associated with 18+ topics. We wouldn't be lifting any topic restrictions (prohibited content in the Rules) if we ever made such a board.

The main goal of the said 18+ board would probably be to talk to other 18+ members but I honestly don't see a reason that we'd need to make a board specifically for meeting other 18+ members.

Point is, this is an Animal Crossing website. If you want to talk about mature things, the Bell Tree isn't the best place to do it, even in an 18+ board. Of course, this is just my opinion and it may or may not be shared with other staff members.

You don't find the idea of discussing with an educated audience appealing?

I guess I should add, what is the goal of the 18+ board you'd like to see? What would be discussed?

Just topics that are more adult oriented. I have a drunk thread in the sage board but no one uses the sage board. I wanted to post a drug discussion but it was quickly deleted before anyone had a chance to read it. I feel like more controversial topics would be held their too. If someone wanted to post about politics or religion and wanted an unclouded (disregarding bias) audience, their go to would be the 18+ board.

 

[Kaiaa]

It's not that at all. It's just that maturity doesn't come with age. I do find talking to an educated audience appealing and I'm up to having my mind changed but I'd really like to see more reasons as to why we'd need an 18+ board.

Because this is a debate and not a fight, I'd like to see your opinions as to why we'd need one. You've seen some of my reasons against, but I need to see more reasons for it.

I alone can't make decisions for the forum but it'd be nice to see your points for it.

 

[SockHead]

It's not that at all. It's just that maturity doesn't come with age. I do find talking to an educated audience appealing and I'm up to having my mind changed but I'd really like to see more reasons as to why we'd need an 18+ board.

Because this is a debate and not a fight, I'd like to see your opinions as to why we'd need one. You've seen some of my reasons against, but I need to see more reasons for it.

Sorry just edited my post

 

[Farobi]

I approve
buuut... The mods are gonna close the thread soon...

u arent even 18 yet u bum c:

 

[Bacon Boy]

I want to say we tried this a while back, or something similar? But it just never took off. We never had enough 18+ members. However, I've seen an increase in said members as of late. I'm for it. While not every 18+ person is mature, it'd still be nice to be able to have discussions about rather taboo topics without having to worry about the kids on the site.

 

[Jas0n]

While I do agree it'd be nice to have a place to have more educated discussion, I feel like the board wouldn't turn out that way.

You could handle entry in one of two ways. The first, by birthdays, is easily faked and members can simply change their birthdays at a click of a button. If they're curious they could easily gain entry into the board and then there'd be no point in having it as it would become basically the same as Brewster's.

As for manually allowing people to access it, you run into the problem of favouritism and only friend groups being allowed. This clearly won't work either because then you're running an exclusive club that the rest of the members can't have access to. At the end of the day, this is a public board and restricting 99% of the userbase from a whole section of it is a poor idea.

Then there's the issue, as Kaiaa mentioned previously, that age doesn't necessarily equal maturity. There'd be a lot of discussion that'd be inappropriate and just because it'd be in an 18+ board does not mean that it could ignore the forum rules. They're in place for a reason, to keep the forum tidy and welcoming for everybody.

At the end of the day, I don't think you've thought this through. Yes it'd be nice to have a place for educated discussion, but no it would not work the way you want it to. We already have slightly more mature means of discussion through mediums such as IRC and Mumble where we frequently discuss religion, politics and other touchy subjects. I'd recommend striking up those mature conversations there instead of a fragile place like the forum.

 

[SockHead]

Yeah I haven't thought this through, this is a discussion. To help get the ball rolling. You expect me to have a fail-proof plan? I don't. But if there's a hole in the plan, fix it. Shooting something down before even trying it is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can't speak for the poll as it may be to early, but it seems like people like the idea of an adult board and would only take a little effort for the staff to piece it together. Make it a beta, test it out. The only way to know for sure it to try. This is what I hated most about being staff on this website is that all of my ideas were shot to the ground. For once I'd like to say I helped contribute something productive to this site.

 

[Kaiaa]

Unfortunately, I believe an 18+ board would invite people to talk about things that are already against the rules, you know? Being in the 18+ board wouldn't make them immune from the rules. In fact we'd have to be a little harsher on the topics in there because people would just assume that since it's in the "mature" section, they can't get in trouble for it (which is not the case).

Having educated discussion with others would be nice but I've seen a lot of 20 somes act like 13 year olds on this site. But like Jas0n said, people could easily fake their ages in order to look in the board. If the goal was to keep them out we'd have to personally choose who got in, like an elitist club, and it would be a lot of work on top of what we already have to deal with. It's good that you want to have educated discussion but I don't think a 18+ board is the way to go. You can still have mature discussion in the regular boards as long as it isn't too controversial.

However, if it's more mature discussion that you'd like, you should join Reddit. (The best part is, you won't get in trouble for talking about mature things there)

 

[Jake]

I've seen a lot of 20 somes act like 13 year olds on this site.

hi

cant you just password protect the board and only give it out to people who you actually know are over 18 and then if they give password to someone under 18 they suck **** 18+ board is closed or would that cause too much **** but idrc coz like i am fine w/out 18+ board i am just trying to be helpful since i am pre much mod anyway!!

 

[oath2order]

hi

cant you just password protect the board and only give it out to people who you actually know are over 18 and then if they give password to someone under 18 they suck **** 18+ board is closed or would that cause too much **** but idrc coz like i am fine w/out 18+ board i am just trying to be helpful since i am pre much mod anyway!!

I like this idea.

Unfortunately that kind of goes into the elitist club thing that she mentioned.

Which sucks. I'd love to have the board.

Hey, is it possible to have a group for 18+?

 

[Kaiaa]

hi

cant you just password protect the board and only give it out to people who you actually know are over 18 and then if they give password to someone under 18 they suck **** 18+ board is closed or would that cause too much **** but idrc coz like i am fine w/out 18+ board i am just trying to be helpful since i am pre much mod anyway!!

But the thing is we don't actually know and if we do, that is a very small group of people and an even smaller group of people we may deem "mature" enough.

 

[Jake]

But the thing is we don't actually know and if we do, that is a very small group of people and an even smaller group of people we may deem "mature" enough.

i am 18 and i am most mature member on this site!!

 

[iLoveYou]

u arent even 18 yet u bum c:

BUM. <33 !! {: This makes me very happy.

It's true, we have to at least be thankful that they allow us to talk about such topics in the IRC / Mumble ( shout out to #TbtAfterDark ). I mean, sometimes I wish more people would join so that they could participate in the discussions. Hearing Lauren + Chris talk about the same alcoholic **** all the time is getting 80% boring in my opinion (kidding, maybe. I love you both). Then people like Psydye join the Mumble and bring in some new things to talk about and it gets things going again. We don't hear from enough people like Psydye. I'm sure there are many more Psydyes out there on this forum who we'd like to talk about these things with.

i am 18 and i am most mature member on this site!!

I can confirm this

 

[oath2order]

Is #tbtafterdark a really channel or a hashtag?

Hey, is it possible to have a group for 18+?