[quote=@Rilla]
Will there be a way to ensure whoever joins is indeed 18+? Or will those participating just have to hope and pray that everyone involved is just as honest as Jim in Liar, Liar? 

I agree that 18 should be the rule(Even here in NC, where it seems to be 16), but it seems without a set way to do it, it could be a big risk for people to take - even if they wanted, I mean really wanted, some grown up time textually.  
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There's no particularly good way to verify ages and that's a problem across the board in any online forum community, and that's just a reality of life here, so yeah, pretty much gotta just hope and pray. But we've made it clear that it's against the rules and a bad idea anyway -- if you're underage and deceive a partner and then engage in that stuff and a parent sees it, you could be landing the partner into a shit-heap of trouble. Even if they aren't convicted, because the laws are a gray area, their lives will be seriously disrupted, perhaps permanently. That was, incidentally, a prior conversation over in RP discussion.

Hopefully, this sort of thing won't be an issue and we can respect each other's wishes and try to be aware that what we do can harm others. That exhortation won't stop a predator, but we're talking more about someone that's misrepresenting themselves in an RP interest check or online in general more than a predator.

So I suppose we'll have to appeal to people to be honest, and we're going to still clamp down on any pedo shit that goes on because that's just a no-brainer.