Poll.. Setting Age Limits..

[StewiesMom]

Originally Posted by teri88

I think that anyone who loves Yorkies should be allowed on. My whole family lurkes on this site, and my daughter and I each have an account. Besides, what would you set at a limit? I've seen some stuff from early twenty-ish people that was less mature than the young people who post. It's the diversity of the members that makes this such an interest site!

Your daughter is lovely Teri. I would be so proud if I were you (and I'm sure you are!)

[bettyeanne]

I don't think it's fair to set an age limit because there are those younger members whose parents are trying to raise educated, responsible children and encourage them! Yes, we have some of those parents/children here on this forum and I thoroughly enjoy conversing with one of them! On the other hand, there are some here whose parents should have used the money they invested in computer equipment to enroll their kids at Sylvin Learning Center! I don't know what the answer is for this delima but I do not think it's really fair to simply set an age limit.

[Fran42478]

Originally Posted by StewiesMom

Your daughter is lovely Teri. I would be so proud if I were you (and I'm sure you are!)

Ditto!

[bchgirl]

Even if there were age requirements to post, you'd still have someone underage posting. They just lie about their birthdates if they want to join a site enough. A friend of mine told me about a teenage forum site that her son frequents, now he is the correct age to join, but we viewed the site and recognized many, many posters who we know are under the age 16 limit. Some of these kids didn't post their age as 16 but some as old as 40 Hmmmm, some sure are aging well, cause their pictures look like a 12 yr old kid. Kinda funny. I guess the moderator on that site isn't paying a whole lot of attention

School's out, let the fun begin cause there's a definite increase once they're home with nothing better to do....

[Laura]

With the new rules from admin, I can't see why a child couldn't be here. As long as we are polite and kind, this is a wonderful place for a child. It is not an X rated site, and the only thing I would worry about kids here is people being mean to them. They give out more information than necessary on a lot of other forums that I would be more worried about, the schools are constantly sending out warnings to parents, they even do it at school with all the check they try to put in place.

I guess I don't really understand the problem with kids?

[bchgirl]

Thought of something. There's one site I belong to that charges a $5.00 a year fee to join. It's a small fee but would probably deter children from joining plus the webmaster really has your personal info

[Laura]

What's more - as long as we are not being silly and gullible to fall for every tacky little post by going crazy, we will not draw the kids who find it so funny. My son thinks of all sorts of bad things to push buttons here. He laughs at us! He knows everyone's pet peeve. Those kids are a lot more computer savvy than we are. Maybe we are just intimidated by them?

[SoCalyorkiLvr]

Originally Posted by Laura

With the new rules from admin, I can't see why a child couldn't be here. As long as we are polite and kind, this is a wonderful place for a child. It is not an X rated site, and the only thing I would worry about kids here is people being mean to them. They give out more information than necessary on a lot of other forums that I would be more worried about, the schools are constantly sending out warnings to parents, they even do it at school with all the check they try to put in place.

I guess I don't really understand the problem with kids?

I tend to agree with Laura. As the "responsible adults" we need to be very careful that we are always on our best behavior, act respectfully and even try to find out a little about the member before we post. I was concerned recently by what I considerd to be some rather harsh comments made to a young member in her early twenties who had admitted being suicidal. She has left the forum as a result I think.

Anyway, it is sooooo important that you THINK before you post.

[Laura]

Now I don't see ages on a lot of those posting here, it is nice to know the age of the people we are talking to, maybe admin should make it part of our screen name. ie: Laura-46.

Would that cause us to 'act our age'

[lycansmom]

Agree but dont see how to enforce it....Angie 25

[Laura]

I like that, we could do it ourself, add it in our siggy??? laura-46

[vainchick5]

I think what makes YT so special and fun is that age, background, lifestyle is not the subject. We are all here to share our wonderful stories of our babies. I think younger, middle and older people should share their stories alike. We should focus on our questions and stories not each others ages, because there are some very mature teens on her that have given me excellent advice. It's good to know our youth is on here educating themselves instead of out doing other things. Personally I like our mix of folks, JMO

[Laura]

I stand corrected! I go back to my original thought, let's just be nice and it doesn't matter how old we are!

[Stitches29]

Originally Posted by jbarile

This may get me in trouble or maybe banned! But I think there should be an age requirement to join a forum.. specifically YT.. So I thought if we took a poll and if members agree that YTalk needs an age limit / requirement.. Maybe the administrator would agree..

please post your agreement or disagreement ..

I understand what you are saying, especially when it comes to Prank Posts. However, I have also seen adults that can't spell any better than a child. So, who do you pick?

[Biddy's Mom]

I don't see any reason why children shouldn't be allowed on here. I have learned a lot from the younger folks on here and from the older folks on here. I have no idea what age has to do with anything. I find it odd that that would even be an issue. Who cares how old a person is? That's like having a cutoff at the age of 65 or something because the older person's view might be outdated. I think that this site is GOOD for the younger people. Wouldn't you rather a 13 year old visit this site than a porn site or a site that advocates violence?