Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-33279756-20171128120452

While creating a wiki today, I noticed the box that asks whether or not the wiki is designed for children under 13, and that struck me a bit. I know 13 is the appropriate age to be editing across FANDOM, but I feel that an alternate box, maybe one that asks if the community is suitable for people under 18, would also be useful.

The reason I propose such a change be made is that there are some wikis about adult-oriented works across FANDOM that contain obscene material intended for an 18+ audience. I know that 13 is generally the age where most people become more capable of handling mature content (though keep in that some have been able to do so at an earlier age) but there are some exceptions to what they are able to tolerate, such as borderline pornographic and sexually explicit content. I'm 16 and there are even some limits as to what I am able to tolerate in mature-intended media.

Enabling an "Is this community directed towards an 18+ audience?" in the wiki creation process would be very helpful in my opinion, maybe even an "Is this community intended for children under 17 option?" if the community is a bit too obscene but not exactly 18+. In regards to film, TV show, and video game wikis, I think that these boxes should checked or left unchecked in accordance with what rating the piece of media is given by the Television Parental Guidelines, Motion Picture Association of America, and Entertainment System Ratings Board.

About the "18+ audience" box, if it is ever added, I think that anyone who attempts to go on any 18+ communities will have to confirm their age first prior to proceeding; anyone who is below the age of 18 will receive a message stating they are not eligible at the moment and thus be unable to access any part of the wiki for the time being. As well as this, anyone whose accounts' Date of Birth registration field confirms them to be under 18 won't be able to access the wiki altogether.

Overall, what do you guys think of this change I am proposing? As the proposer I personally support this idea. As I stated earlier in the blog, 13 is generally the age that children are able to tolerate mature content, but because FANDOM does not have a censorship policy on information provision, there are some wikis out there about adult subjects, often containing sexually explicit content, that even younger teens may not be able to handle, and the age of majority, 18+, is generally when this content is able to be tolerated. However, keep in mind that recent scientific studies prove that the human brain does not fully develop until the age of 25, which is 7 years from majority's debut. Take this evidence as you may, but I would like to hear your guys' feedback on this change I am proposing. 