sweathie wrote:hellevi wrote:aelius wrote:"on CS, we would like to maintain a safe environment for all ages, regardless of how silly others may think that is. everyday, staff experience situations on this site that remind us of why we have these rules in place. it is important to understand that it is not to censor anyone, but instead to protect those who are vulnerable."
i totally understand this, but i feel like some stuff should still be lightened up on. for example, a signature link to someone's toyhouse which has a link to their twitter where they mention their age is like, 24 or something really shouldn't be something that can get someone into trouble. if they are a minor, i completely would understand that, but i feel like adults should be allowed to share things like their ages off-site without it being moderated due to being linked a few links from CS, those are the type of things that i feel are kind of unnecessary at this point, as i personally cannot see how that makes things any safer for the vulnerable people who do play cs /gen
i totally understand where you're coming from with this, and i think many people probably feel the same as you. the reason we moderate offsite links that contain age as strictly as we do, even if the user is an adult, is because many children may see that someone has their age a few clicks away and think that it is okay to do the same. yes, someone being 24 and revealing their age is much different than a minor doing the same thing. but the issue lies in children making examples of the adults on this site, therefore leading to us being unable to make exceptions. enforcing the rules for everyone, regardless of age, adds an extra layer of protection that many sites do not provide.
adult user here, supporting hellevi
is it annoying that i've gotten bonked for something 3 links away? yes, absolutely.
but i completely understand and support the rules being this way for child safety reasons. a minor annoyance for me is worth the safety of young CS users.
I fully agree and support these reasons, but I do have a thought I'd like to add if possible.
A few years ago, I received an official board warning for having a link to my deviantart profile. I had been linking to my deviantart profile for years on this site, because I fully believed it to be free of anything that would break CS rules. something like 3 years passed, with my links to deviantart being posted innocently, and then randomly one day, I got the warning.
turns out, there was a grainy photograph of me from 9 years prior to the first time I posted a link to that account, buried in my scraps, in a folder I hadn't touched in more than 5 years. I'd completely forgotten it was there. obviously, a mod did not search through my deviantart account just to dig up something to reprimand me for, but another user did, whether for petty reasons or 'just for fun' reasons, I'll never know.
but i was really devastated to get that warning because it was an actual mark on my account for several months, felt like such a glaring "this user has done something wrong and bad," and while i know that's very silly/blowing things out of proportion, it was hard for me to handle at the time. I wonder if there's any way there could be a verbal warning first for this kind of thing instead of an immediate strike on-site? I had truly forgotten about that picture, it was 9 years old and I hadn't even remembered I'd uploaded it there in the first place. if a mod had messaged me and let me know it was there, I would of course have apologized and immediately removed those links.