Originally posted by Purgatory
Just wanted to say one last thing; this site follows COPPA guidelines and as such, most members are indeed aged 13 and onwards. But what's the legal age of consent then? In the UK it's 16, three years ABOVE the COPPA guideline age. So, those three years worth of forum members is what we need to protect from the likes of you pervs =P
Actually, there's nothing stopping a ten year-old from lying and getting around the COPPA stuff, or from viewing threads without registering. But I honestly believe the ratio of young children to big vulgar kids is so overwhelming that it shouldn't really matter. The whole "family board" think is a cover to keep out a wide variety of lame crap that you see on other message boards.

I personally think that the "drama" that goes on around here is more damaging than any pointless crap thread, but that's me.

And good call about the small board/big board stuff, Mandee. There's no way a big board with a lot of people will ever beat a small board with all your friends. That's impossible, and we'll never aspire to do that. EoFF is a biggish place where you meet a lot of people and maybe meet new people and maybe talk about stuff and maybe have fun. It can't be all things to all people, and it never tries to be. Aiyon and the other spin-off boards are awesome to the people who go. But if Aiyon ever got huge (BoBo won't let that happen, but IF), it'd start to have all kinds of drama and wusses posting lame crap about how the board "should" be run and just a lot of people saying a lot of stupid things. That's how that works out.