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Originally Posted by Critteranne
Some online communities have additional rules for minors. (And some of these rules are often required by their jurisdictions.) For example, I've been in communities that controlled the language level in the chatroom, banned people from asking "age, sex, location," had active moderators, and banned minors from certain forums. People can still try to get around these -- but better supervision makes it more difficult. On top of that, if the people in charge don't do anything once something has been reported to them, they're skating on thin ice.
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Sure, and it seems like that's the direction they decided to go. It seems they nuked it from orbit, rather than making it clear that it was an adult space with variable moderation by volunteers, and maybe starting over with the young writers side.
You destroy your community and then wonder where your community has gone.
Maybe it was the only way they felt they could meet their legal obligations, but it clearly didn't work.