Marking Servers as 18+ Only
I and many other people in their mid-twenties and beyond don't feel comfortable sharing servers with minors, preferring instead to spend time with people closer in age without having to worry about keeping our communities appropriate for younger members. In an attempt to curate our own spaces, though, the tools for ensuring that everybody involved is behaving safely are woefully inadequate. Your only options are relying on the honor system and hope that folks aren't lying about their age or faking IDs, or go the route of marking every single channel, regardless of its purpose, as NSFW individually.
These are obviously not ideal solutions, so I'm proposing a compromise that will hopefully lead to more people feeling safe and comfortable overall.
The age verification via inputting your date of birth is a step in the right direction. I want to further utilize this by giving server owners the ability to mark an entire server as 18+ only/NSFW and accessible only to people who have verified their age. If someone under the age of 18 tries to join via an invite link, they're greeted with the message that they're unable to join until their 18th birthday. This option would be accessible via a tickbox in the Server Overview section, and will only go into effect if all current members of the server have verified their age. Members who do not meet the minimum threshold will be displayed as a warning message without revealing their true age to preserve privacy, but they can then be contacted and removed as needed.
There's a growing number of people who want or need spaces that don't cater to younger teenagers, and I believe that providing a simple way to ensure that will be beneficial, both to the safety of minors and adults, going forward. If anyone has any further suggestions to improve or streamline this process, feel free to let me know!
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