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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Ugliness is part of--we have common code already for asking 'are you an adult' and collecting user/pass and I didn't want to add code for collecting DOB and 'signature'.
A lot of it was just that I didn't want to deal with a site that felt the need to be that lawyered up. To the point that I've never gone past the scary DOB/'signature' page that includes warnings such as:
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In fairness to AFF, the site basically started after FanFiction.Net got sued for having NC-17 content in 2002. Since practically all content on AFF is adult material and they don't require registration to access adult material, that's basically the reason for all the legal warnings. They're really just trying to protect themselves lest they be a target for lawsuits.