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I'm only bringing this up bc I now have a younger sibling who's future I have to worry about...

What should be the age limit allowed to post on the board?

Posters who are parents....what age would you want your kids reading some of these posts?

There is som preety vulger shit on here.
But can you guess how many ten year olds surf porn on a regular basis??????
It's hard to filter the internet.
I figure if a kid is raised better they won't go looking for crap. and if they find crap then they would ignore it.
If a kid is raised worse then they can easily find out how to build bombs, much less read dirty words.

btw im not a parent.. and im 19

1. Don't let a kid have a computer in his/her room; have the computer they use in the middle of the family room.
2. Walk by on a regular basis and see what they're doing; yes, they consider it an invasion of privacy, but life's tough like that sometimes.
3. I, honestly, wouldn't let my kids on this site due to some of the vulgar comments that I make myself. He/she may browse the online guidebook as much as they want.
4. You can't shelter them forever, I know, I teach in a middle school. Twelve year olds know probably ten times the crap that you think they don't know. But, mine will be sure that I'm attempting to always know what they're doing.
5. I'd say sixteen or seventeen.

I think the age is entirely subjective, depending on the maturity of the child. My late blooming 13 year old wouldn't be interested in reading this site, but I don't think he would be too shocked to read some of this stuff once I explained that it's mostly intended as humor. His web surfing centers on school work and how to beat his (all ages) video games. That said, I do have some pretty elaborate parental controls in place as well as the 'safe search' option enabled on Google. I don't want him stumbling across anything disturbing, and I certainly don't want anyone to be able to communicate with him who may have malicious intent.

If he wanted to read this site, I would let him, but I would be sitting right next to him to answer his questions. You really cannot shield children forever, but you should certainly be there in order to help them make sense of the world.

As a moderator of this site, I only censor what I find deeply offensive. I'm pretty thick skinned, so I let an awful lot slide (and jump right in the fray pretty regularly). I draw the line on anything that targets groups of people who are vulnerable or who have been persecuted. I won't tolerate any references to pedophilia or any kind of serious attack on a person or groups of people based on their ethnicity, religious affiliation, or sexual orientation. It's a tough line to draw sometimes, especially when people are debating ideas, so I'm sure someone can find examples of stuff that they believe should have been moderated. However I try to err on the side of less is better (so sukit).

Ray and the mods want everyone to feel welcome here, but we won't make it child safe. We are climbers afterall.

I don't have kids, but I wouldn't care if my little brother read the board. He's 16, and probably knows just as much shit as I do about anything not climbing related.

im 14 and im fine with this site along with my parentals

Shouldn't the question be asked, "What's an appropriate age range to be on the internet?" I get pornographic email EVERY day (thanks Southern Indiana Mountaineers - just kidding AL!) and it's all worse than this site!

you should ALWAYS monitor what your child reads and views on the internet!

overhung wrote:2. Walk by on a regular basis and see what they're doing; yes, they consider it an invasion of privacy, but life's tough like that sometimes.

I don't have kids but I would not consider this an invation of of privacy just an attemt to raise them right. I would go as far as to look at temp internet files and history list. although I will predict my kids to be smart enough to hide this from me

deal with it, you can count on it. My younger brother knows more about our home computers than anyone in the house.