Feral Heart

No one should even have to do such a thing as contacting an administrator.

COPPA is a LAW. You cannot dance around it or ignore it as if it is not there.

Not following it is breaking it and therefore can land you in some pretty deep crap.

Quote from: [F]inal [J]ump on January 11, 2014, 01:54:37 am

If you need more manpower to effectively moderate your community, get more mods. It's what they're for, much like your normal police officers.

You're handing me an awful lot of excuses as to why you can't abide by law, and I want to flatly say I never stated for the staff to be perfect. Again, if you expect me to be reasonable, please understand that I am indeed being reasonable. Perfection is a silly notion.

What isn't, is for me to direct your attention to what Nowe posted. You literally saw people admit to knowing or being 12 or younger on this very thread. What have you done about it? Don't entertain me with the answer, entertain your community/those who're watching this thread. What do you want them to see?

Staff who is more quick to defend themselves or staff that gets things done?

What opinion do you want to give--the impression, you want your community to have of you? Granted, you could very well not care and that is a viable option but then you wouldn't be a good option for the public relations side of staffing. Not the worst though, definitely not the worst.

Edit - Shusuke has voiced an opinion similar to mine. c8

What are you, a lawyer or something?

Getting more staff members is better said than done. When it comes to a sight like this, not just anybody can become a moderator. There are requirements, qualifications and standards to meet in order to become a moderator of FH. The current staff don't want to promote someone to hold such responsiblities and powers to the wrong people.

Back to the age thing now...

Like others have said, the kids aren't entirely to blame when it comes to logging onto the world of the internet. It all has to do with the parents. If junior gets on his family computer and logs onto an adult website that has some explicit content on it, well it's the parents fault for not setting up the parental control settings properly, or putting any in the first place. If they did, little billy wouldn't be looking at those kind of websites.
And then there are some parents who just really don't care what their kid gets into at all. As long as little billy isn't bothering Mom or Dad, and is playing on a game about animals, they won't really bother looking into what it is the kid is seeing on this game that looks seemingly harmless. As far as some parents are concerened, "Oh it's just a game about animals, it's probably for kids so what harm can it be?" Sometimes the parents don't really look at the details or warnings posted on some game sites. Do you think junior is going to tell Mom and Dad about the rules, warnings, and other precautions an online game comes with? Probably not, since they don't want to hear Mom or Dad say, "Sorry, Billy, but you can't play that game. It's not safe."

Now to cut to the chase. Are you suggesting that FH should participate in the whole COPPA thing like WolfQuest, Neopets, and other "child games" have done? Do you really think it will make much of a difference at all?

Still. I can't make an account. It says the e-mail is invalid.

I signed up for this. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet. Might as well.
Yay for Impressive Elements! I was wondering, do they have enough In-game moderators?