I am gonna weigh in myself. Firstly, ERP with a real world minor is definitely a no. Absolutely under no circumstances if you know your partner is under the legal age in your area, should you engage in that behavior. However, that being said, unless we have the partner's start faxing us copies of their real world ID's, which will never happen, all folks can do is take the other persons word they are of legal age.
Now on the part of RPing characters that are considered under aged, lore also plays a significant role in how old or how young a character would be. If lore dictates that a certain race is considered an adult at a certain age, and the character meets up with the lore, even though real world laws would consider the character under age, then sorry but I feel lore trumps here. This is an imaginary world where we got giant green/blue/red skinned hulks, elegant long limbed and lock necked elves, youthful looking cat people, and even a race that looks like child elves.
But I do agree, that people should not be running up to an in-character 15 year old lalafell child to solicit for sex. And the best way to handle them, is to send them a whisper explaining the character is roleplayed as a child, and as such, their behavior is both unwarranted and illegal. Chances are, they will back off. If they don't, open a ticket with a GM, and if they are in an FC, considering you'd asked them to stop, and they refuse, usually a good idea to let their FC Officers know of the behavior as well.
That's my two gil.
Now on the part of RPing characters that are considered under aged, lore also plays a significant role in how old or how young a character would be. If lore dictates that a certain race is considered an adult at a certain age, and the character meets up with the lore, even though real world laws would consider the character under age, then sorry but I feel lore trumps here. This is an imaginary world where we got giant green/blue/red skinned hulks, elegant long limbed and lock necked elves, youthful looking cat people, and even a race that looks like child elves.
But I do agree, that people should not be running up to an in-character 15 year old lalafell child to solicit for sex. And the best way to handle them, is to send them a whisper explaining the character is roleplayed as a child, and as such, their behavior is both unwarranted and illegal. Chances are, they will back off. If they don't, open a ticket with a GM, and if they are in an FC, considering you'd asked them to stop, and they refuse, usually a good idea to let their FC Officers know of the behavior as well.
That's my two gil.
