Topic: If I'm suspecting somebody's a minor, but have no tangible proof of it, wha do i do?

Posted under General

Do I report them anyway with the report reason being "Talks, acts and behaves naively like a minor" or would that uneccessarily clog up the ticket queue? It's mostly just a hunch because they act like one.

wolfmanfur said:
Do I report them anyway with the report reason being "Talks, acts and behaves naively like a minor" or would that uneccessarily clog up the ticket queue? It's mostly just a hunch because they act like one.

Why don't you private message them about their age and ask them to be honest.
Dude, there's billions of adults who don't act their age and have kid-like mannerisms.
I know I do.
So you should just be blunt and honest with them. If they say No, there's your answer.

But if you're still not sure, try and catch them slipping? Bait them? that's probably too much IQ to actually pull off though.
That's all I got dude. Sorry.

I have to repeatedly remind myself that people people who type "for" and "to" as "4" and "2" and can't spell "masturbate" correctly are usually actually adults... That's all, I don't have any helpful advice.

Don't bother. a person's manerism isn't enough evidence to suspect them for being a minor.

notknow said:
Challenge them to a floss battle, if they accept they are a minor.

"I quintuple dare you to admit your real age online!" <-- Surely this'll work.

crocogator said:
I have to repeatedly remind myself that people people who type "for" and "to" as "4" and "2" and can't spell "masturbate" correctly are usually actually adults... That's all, I don't have any helpful advice.

I honestly never understood shortening "to" to "2" or "for" to "4" in a sentence. like, maybe I could understand if you were texting on a 3x4 keypad and for some reason you used Abc rather than T9, but people would do it on MMOs and stuff. on a full keyboard it's such a minimal amount of fewer keystrokes, and you have to reach up to the number key row which messes with the flow of typing.

sipothac said:
I honestly never understood shortening "to" to "2" or "for" to "4" in a sentence. like, maybe I could understand if you were texting on a 3x4 keypad and for some reason you used Abc rather than T9, but people would do it on MMOs and stuff. on a full keyboard it's such a minimal amount of fewer keystrokes, and you have to reach up to the number key row which messes with the flow of typing.

If it's on a platform with a short character limit (like Twitter) then it can be understandable to squeeze a bit more like that, if there is none or the limit is generous that is not much reason...

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