I Have a Suggestion for Similar Worlds
I don’t think it’s any secret that there are online predators on this site, hiding in the PMs(or sometimes less inconspicuously) and that there are young naive children on this site as well. There is an option to make a 13-15 and 16-17 year old account and while there are some measures put in to protect them, such as restricting who can communicate with them. Because this is an anonymous site so we can’t know for sure that if two people in that age range are talking that one isn’t secretely an adult, preying on the naivety of the other.
My suggestion is that for all underaged accounts, before activating the account they should have to go through a presentation of sorts, teaching how to look out for predators, not to give out personal information, not to reveal to much, not to send pictures of them self, etc. But on top of that, because I would expect the majority of children on here making an account would just skip right past it, I think we should quiz them on the presentation. Nothing too difficult because obviously we want them to join the site, but just enough so that we can be confident they have a general understating of how to protect themselves from predators. I know this isn’t cundusive to getting new members to join because many underaged members will be turned off the site by the idea of having to take a quiz just to join, but it insures that they can try to protect themselves from predators, which should be a top priority.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this, hoping this will be looked at seriously by the Admins and please any feedback is welcome, I’d like to know how the community feels about this as well.
My suggestion is that for all underaged accounts, before activating the account they should have to go through a presentation of sorts, teaching how to look out for predators, not to give out personal information, not to reveal to much, not to send pictures of them self, etc. But on top of that, because I would expect the majority of children on here making an account would just skip right past it, I think we should quiz them on the presentation. Nothing too difficult because obviously we want them to join the site, but just enough so that we can be confident they have a general understating of how to protect themselves from predators. I know this isn’t cundusive to getting new members to join because many underaged members will be turned off the site by the idea of having to take a quiz just to join, but it insures that they can try to protect themselves from predators, which should be a top priority.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this, hoping this will be looked at seriously by the Admins and please any feedback is welcome, I’d like to know how the community feels about this as well.
26-30, M
