Board Thread:Administrator Noticeboard/@comment-25378948-20140902220405/@comment-26014718-20140905204040

AwesomeOrange has a point. You guys are blantly ignoring a law that was enforced to maintain the safety of children because you think they're 'nice'? You shouldn't be encouraging users to break the rules, especially underage users. It's like saying that stealing and getting away with it is OK because no one with authority found out.

It doesn't matter if Austin and Ally watchers are ranked 9-12, this rule was enforced to maintain their safety. Do you not realise how many pedophiles there are on the internet, websites like these are lurkng of them because they attract young children who don't understand how dangerous it really is, for all you know one of your closest friends could be a 49 year old. One of the admins could be a pedophile. And don't say it will never happen, because it has happened on another wiki where one of the 'trusted' admins engaged in conversations on chat regarding explicit sexual activity, and you know who his targets were? All under 13 because they are unaware and uneducated to how serious it really is, sexual predators know this and that's why they target them.

It's ridiculous that you are so blind to how serious this really is. Were you not educated? I remember watching loads of videos regarding internet safety, my whole middle school was given a lecture because 80% of the under 13 year olds had created a facebook acoount illegally.

What woud you do if one of these users on here that were, 10 maybe, developed a close relationship with someone who pretended to be 11 or 12 and shared personal information with them, enough for them to be tracked down and exploited in the worse possible way. It happens. Do you really want to be partly responsible because you couldn't enforce the law and encouraged underage users to work around it? Just because a TV show is ranked for underage users and because they're your friends? If they're your friends mabe you should be a bit more concerned about their safety.

What about if a 6 or 7 year old came on here? (Trust me they do come on here) What would you do?

I'm not trying to start an argument or anything, I know I'm going to get hated for this but I just concerned, especially when you encourage them to exploit it. It's going to also give users the idea that they can break other rules on here by finding loopholes.