Board Thread:Administrator Noticeboard/@comment-25378948-20140902220405/@comment-26014718-20140906005551

I'm not talking to anyone in particular, I was just reading through the comments and picking out the details. I guess it was mainly at Jessie1010 considering he was the one encouraging users to exploit the rules, which irritated me because he's supposed to be enforcing them. I didn't intend to sound rude or condescending, especially not specificly to just you, I have just noticed in the past that many of the other admins delt with the situation similarly to how Jessie1010.

I never excused any of your admins as a pedophile, I'm using this is an example that anyone can be anyone. It has happened before, y'know. I was on a wiki where one of the head admins was a pedophiles in his 40s/50s. Forunately I was 14 at the time, although he did target one of my friends who was 11. I'm not going to say what he talked about considering it would be inappropriate. And when I was about 15 another head admin, one of my friends, lied about having a heart condition. This was iCarly Wiki. And need I explain what one of the admins did on the Victorious wiki? I'm just saying that anyone can pretend to be anyone. From my experiences, I've learned to never trust anyone you to talk to behind a screen. Do you really think a child under 13 should be exposed to this? They should be off a computer screen and enjoying time with their friends and family, while they still can. I wish I could go back to being a kid again, time is a delicate thing, you don't realise how important it is until there's none left.

You're right, many of those kids on the videos was 14/15, including me but a 14 or 13 year old is a lot more experienced then a 10 or 11 year old. Maybe in one case a 10 year old girl is more mature than a 13 year old girl, but there is that three year age gap there. That's three years worth of life experience and higher education. It doesn't matter how mature you are, it's the experiences you have faced as a teenager that influence your future decisions. High school is a good learning experience for that. Yes teenagers make mistakes, heck I'm 17 and I make a lot of misakes, but as you grow old every day your viewpoint changes to certain situations that make you think back how you could have done it differently and what you will do next time.

I never said you were idiots. A while ago I had a debate about this topic with another admin, seemingly state it was the law that you must be 13 to have an account on any website, including wiki, and they seemingly brushed it off like they had no clue why such a rule would have been placed. Plus the fact how Jessie1010 basically told an underage user to deactivate their account and create a new one like it was no big deal.

I realise your sympathy because I was under 13 once and created fake accounts without realising that I was putting myself at risk - and I almost did., I know some rules are meant to be broken but as an admin Jessie1010 shouldn't be encouraging users to break the law, especially when it is there to maintain their safety. As I said before, doing this will also give some users the wrong idea to look for loopholes which may backfire on this wikia.

I honestly don't mean no harm or to be rude, I study childcare and have been taught in depth the dangers of the internet. It's quite terrifying and I remember crying after watching many videos in class. I just don't want it to happen to anyone on here.