[arista]

Originally Posted by Verbal

Well, personally I don't think its appropriate for an adult to be unknowingly conversing with a young teenager. Thats my only reasoning.

But on this Big Brother Forum

It works fine
as the staff stop any wrong things

[Josy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

What's the point of an 18+ forum? Would be too difficult to create a section that can only be seen by over 18s anyway

This, also it would be too difficult for for people to prove they were actually 18 and as others have said it's splitting the forum into groups and that never ends well.

Originally Posted by Verbal

Well, personally I don't think its appropriate for an adult to be unknowingly conversing with a young teenager. Thats my only reasoning.

Everyone that joins up to the forum knows there are members as young as 13, if they only wanted to talk to adults theres plenty of other places online.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by arista

But on this Big Brother Forum

It works fine
as the staff stop any wrong things

Yes, that is on one subject. If for example someone who is 40 creates a topic in general chat that really should only be for the eyes of a mature audience, they can unknowingly get into a debate with a child. Discussing what could be a risque subject. Or they could say something, thinking that the person they are saying it to is of mature age, when infact they are still in school. An over 18s forum would stop that from happening, or at least remove any liability from anyone other than the child that lied about their age.