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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: shagbardceline on August 27, 2013, 02:30 am

Title: you cant ID for age here , and you cant fix stupid - but you can redirect it
Post by: shagbardceline on August 27, 2013, 02:30 am
I was looking at a few threads in "general discussion" that I am not allowed to respond to - and some in
newbie that are older. 
The common theme of several was that very young buyers do things that are either bad for their health, bad
for their future, bad for SR, bitcoin, or just bad for business.

I am not going to fall into the trap of saying that young people should be somehow prevented from
transcending the law and shopping here the way that folks past some arbitrary age can.
It seems to be much simpler than what age.
I knew 13 year old girls that could raise  a family and 35 year old men who cant start a savings account. Whatever dichotomy you use - ___  enough to do drugs, _  enough to understand privacy issues,
 ___  enough to be street smart    -
the operative word is not "old"

So that fact that one can't "ID" ppl for age here is irrelevant.
But, I think a test can be devised to weed out people who are so dumb that they endanger the site.

Like, maybe a flash game where you have  pics of drugs, and then a pic of a strong-safe  and a pic of a facebook profile. Anyone who drags the drugs to the facebook profile gets booted.

Now - If we can't figure out a test that will weed out people so dumb that they will incriminate themselves and SR - then perhaps we can lessen the blowback.
if they are sooooo  intoxicated ( or stupid) that they simply muuuust post to social meida about their new toys, get them to promise they will claim they got it from _______
and name some fundamentalist closed minded religious organization that has tax shelters.
IE - i got this from the scientologists at a fair! or I got this from the Mamlukks on the last day of ramadan or I got this from - oh whats that right wing church that protests US veterans' funerals if they are gay or had an abortion - you get the drift.
Or have them say that Anders Behring Breivik sold it to them.