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18+ Board (Poll)

If you are 18 or older, would you enjoy an Adult Board?

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Kippla said:
I'm nowhere near 18, but I'll put in my two cents because I'm not voting.

There's no need for an 18+ board. Like everyone has said, this is an Animal Crossing forum. Why would anyone need to discuss anything only suitable for adults? I mean, look at me. I'm not even a teenager and yet people mistake me for being 20+. Just because you are young does not mean you are not mature, because you are not mature does not mean you cannot be allowed around serious topics. You can easily start a group for this kind of thing, not a whole board that probably won't get much use.
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If it means anything to you, I didn't mistake you for being over 20.
 
Kippla said:
Why would anyone need to discuss anything only suitable for adults? I mean, look at me. I'm not even a teenager and yet people mistake me for being 20+. Just because you are young does not mean you are not mature, because you are not mature does not mean you cannot be allowed around serious topics.
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Can I metaphorically marry you?
 
KarlaKGB said:
Still want to start a whisky thread, cause that's a gentleman's drink.
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Hey, feel free to start a whisky discussion thread if you'd like. As long as it isn't full stupid drunken posts and you're actually discussing whisky, that's fine.
 
The point is, age does not come with maturity. Common sense is not common for some people. An board for adults only does not have a true purpose on a forum that kids and teens go on. If this forum was for various things, it would make sense, yes. But you shouldn't be talking about adult matters on a forum like this regardless.
 
Something like the Grownup Gamers board in ACC would be convenient, rather than a thread that constantly gets lost.
Some people would much rather interact with their peers, doesn't mean they're having discussions that aren't suitable for a younger audience.

But I honestly don't care. In Wild World I was hanging out with parents and grandparents; and as an adult playing New Leaf, I have some younger players on my friend list.
 
Kippla said:
The point is, age does not come with maturity. Common sense is not common for some people. An board for adults only does not have a true purpose on a forum that kids and teens go on. If this forum was for various things, it would make sense, yes. But you shouldn't be talking about adult matters on a forum like this regardless.
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I couldn't agree more. Personally, I believe anyone with the uncontrollable need to talk about sex, alcohol, or drugs should take it elsewhere. Why not join another forum and use that for inappropriate discussion?
 
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Bowie said:
I couldn't agree more. Personally, I believe anyone with the uncontrollable need to talk about sex, alcohol, or drugs should take it elsewhere. Why not join another forum and use that for inappropriate discussion?
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Wow, you're assuming you think people have an controllable need. Maybe some people just want to chat about that kind of stuff.
 
I'm not 18 or older but I didn't vote, don't worry!
We could have the thread as a beta first o: To see how it works out.
 
Amnesia said:
I'm not 18 or older but I didn't vote, don't worry!
We could have the thread as a beta first o: To see how it works out.
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Don't worry, this isn't the first time a "mature/18+" board has been brought up.

There are/were threads that would belong in that sort of board, but they almost always end up getting closed due to immature people. Whenever this thread dies another year or two will go by and another one exactly like this will get brought up again.
Rinse and repeat.
 
oath2order said:
Wow, you're assuming you think people have an controllable need. Maybe some people just want to chat about that kind of stuff.
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I actually said the exact opposite. I made the assumption some people may consist of an uncontrollable desire to talk about such things. I'm not trying to suggest that everyone would be going wild over the unexpected ability to shout out how big their private parts are in comparison to those of others, but as a forum host to many young, sexually unaware people, the concept of opening it's arms up to such explicit content would be extremely out of place, and in my own personal point of view, reckless. Of course, sex is not the only subject to fear if such a board was ever created. I'm not against people talking about sex, alcohol or drugs at all! I just don't think that it would be an appropriate thing to discuss in a place elsewhere filled with the security of such content!
 
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I'm probably not enough of a regular on this forum to give an opinion, but I'm gonna give it anyway. :3 From my experience on other forums with 18+ boards it will mainly be people posting pictures of halfnaked women and adults being very immature when it comes to sexual topics. Oh and the obligatory alcohol thread that will mainly be posted in by alcoholics or people who just look like they are. The rest will either be more randomness or threads that could've easily been made in existing "serious discussion" boards.

So unless you feel your porn folder is not full enough and don't know how to use google or you have an irresistable urge to make immature sexual jokes and don't know where else to do that there isn't really a good reason to have a board like this. Even the alcohol thread could probably be made in brewster's caf?.
 
My take is that if you need a place to post things that are inappropriate for people under 18 to see, then you probably shouldn't be posting it anyway. If that isn't the case, then there doesn't need to be an 18+ board for people to post the exact same topics and comments as they do normally. It'd just end up being 18+ duplicates of what already exists. It isn't necessary.
 
Maybe it should be an exclusive club thing. Monitor the people who want in for a while and if they prove to be mature enough, give them access. If they start being immature, just ban/suspend them from the board, or from the forum entirely. I know one of the mods said they didn't want to moderate it so a solution to that could be to hire some new mods that would be interested.
 
Why did Bowie and Kammeh vote? They shouldn't have, and their votes shouldn't count, because it doesn't affect them >.<
 
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