Age Restriction Mod Idea - Posted (2104 Views)
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Carefree
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I would like a mod that allows different portions of the board to be automatically blocked from under-aged visitors/members. For example, one of the boards I visit occasionally has an adult humor section - and the mods have to review users by birthdate & manually modify the access lists to let people in after they become of age.
That is a bit more effort than I want to put into it. If we could use a check DOB string and if that particular section of the board had an age restriction in effect, the young'ns would be disallowed.<
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Andy Humm
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It should be possible, but some of our delightful 'yoofs' or 'minors', can easily submit a DOB that allows access permissions.<
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MaD2ko0l
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yes but, what if that forum was hidden from younger people they wouldnt know its there unless they initinally on registration supplied an adult age<
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Carefree
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Of course, but then we (as system operators) are covered, we've at least complied with the intent of the law.
I have an idea on how to write this, I'll start on it as soon as I finish the other two which I've promised.<
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phy1729
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Do you want the age limit to be in conjunction with another forum type or a separate forum type all together?<
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Carefree
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I want the age restriction to work throughout the forums, & either a toggle or a checkbox for the admins to control it within each forum or in a list like the forum order control page.<
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Carefree
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I thought of using the User Groups mod (but not really necessary), adding a global variable value, and then having it check along with the Moderator check.
Alternatively, could use User Groups & determine which forum categories should be off-limits, add them to a single group, & have the new user registration automatically place minors into a group that doesn't have access.<
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phy1729
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I would add another DB column to TOPICS that holds the minimum age perhaps called T_Min_Age. Did you have another way to approach this that you would prefer?<
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Carefree
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Let's not go all the way to topic level, age-restricting by forum is sufficient. I'd rather avoid the unnecessary labor of having to set age limits on each/every post. There's already a minimum age for registration, but it leaves a gap for the teen-aged minors (which I'd rather not fill by a visit to the Feds explaining why some sick pervert was using my board to reach teeny-boppers).<
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MaD2ko0l
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could you not add another moderation level for age?
maybe modify the forum posting restriction mod? (http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=6220) (download of the file can be located a few posts down from http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=66878&SearchTerms=mad2kool)


or maybe you coudl modify the User level moderation mod (found here http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=39014)

1 of these mods must be able to do what you need with a little bit of tweaking<
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phy1729
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Originally posted by Carefree
Let's not go all the way to topic level, age-restricting by forum is sufficient. I'd rather avoid the unnecessary labor of having to set age limits on each/every post. There's already a minimum age for registration, but it leaves a gap for the teen-aged minors (which I'd rather not fill by a visit to the Feds explaining why some sick pervert was using my board to reach teeny-boppers).
I meant FORUM oops. I'll have time next Thursday to work on it if you don't get there first.<
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