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What is happening, is preaching to the choir. I highly doubt that any of the people on RPC are actually going to start ERP sessions with a minor player. At most one hypothetical about maybe it happening with a minor IC character, but most here already advocate "ERP with people you know" and with a minor -character- almost all of that is already done in private, in party chats or what have you with stupid occasional MT most likely.
It's like everybody but me is experiencing public ERP with the way you want to describe it.
Characters and people talk about illegal crap all the time. I'm not saying I might not find some of it distasteful but if I don't like that some people are talking about doing drugs OOCly or ICly, I just walk away or deal with it ICly. No one wants to or will be the RP police of finding out "that player is a MINOR! they shouldn't be getting engaged with this" and "that guy is 52 years of age and he's with one!"
There was in fact the one OP mention of perhaps finding a way for characters to be identified by age (either/both character or player age). People are going to lie if they want to or need to. For the years until I was 14 I lied on all the sites about my age to register or get email addresses. And then I also spent years lying about my age about how I wasn't a minor so that I could watch/read some more smutty things.
It's like everybody but me is experiencing public ERP with the way you want to describe it.
Characters and people talk about illegal crap all the time. I'm not saying I might not find some of it distasteful but if I don't like that some people are talking about doing drugs OOCly or ICly, I just walk away or deal with it ICly. No one wants to or will be the RP police of finding out "that player is a MINOR! they shouldn't be getting engaged with this" and "that guy is 52 years of age and he's with one!"
There was in fact the one OP mention of perhaps finding a way for characters to be identified by age (either/both character or player age). People are going to lie if they want to or need to. For the years until I was 14 I lied on all the sites about my age to register or get email addresses. And then I also spent years lying about my age about how I wasn't a minor so that I could watch/read some more smutty things.