I have a question for the mods (or non mods idc)
How do you figure out if an account user is underage?
For example https://e621.net/users/1470835

The ONLY thing i would see as a clue would be his name "middlesbruh01" which could mean hes in middle school

Is this enough suspicion to ban someone?
Were there some other obvious clues i missed?

Its an genuine question because your work on here baffles me.

somethingedgey said:
I have a question for the mods (or non mods idc)
How do you figure out if an account user is underage?
For example https://e621.net/users/1470835

The ONLY thing i would see as a clue would be his name "middlesbruh01" which could mean hes in middle school

Is this enough suspicion to ban someone?
Were there some other obvious clues i missed?

Its an genuine question because your work on here baffles me.

For all I know, the name could just refer to the town of Middlesbrough in the UK. Which apparently is pronounced like that. The 01 could be a birth year, as well as anything else. But if it was, that'd mean the person is actually of age (I was born in 02, and I'm 21 right now). Maybe they commented something that indicated that they were underage in some way, idk.

But yeah, not enough clues for me to conclusively tell this person's age either.

@somethingedgey: often times this info comes to staff's attention from more private sources, outside of what's immediately and publicly available on the user's page

dmail interactions, an associated discord account, staff even caught some kids from the "are you 18 or older" question in their staff drives. I doubt mods sussed out random habit's of mid's typing and their ban more likely came from some responsible mutual or them letting out some more directly incriminating info directly to a mod

somethingedgey said:
I have a question for the mods (or non mods idc)
How do you figure out if an account user is underage?
For example https://e621.net/users/1470835

The ONLY thing i would see as a clue would be his name "middlesbruh01" which could mean hes in middle school

Is this enough suspicion to ban someone?
Were there some other obvious clues i missed?

Its an genuine question because your work on here baffles me.

For me, I find them coz they sometimes write their age somewhere on their e6 bio (surprisingly,) or on their other social media.