18+ Compliance

Posted on Mon Aug 4th, 2025 @ 6:19pm by Arianna D'Tal

This is an important announcement for all RPG site owners, and administrators that is being posted on Discord servers, and website news posts. Since this may impact existing users, it's being shown to all users.

Due to changing laws, requiring age gating for mature or unsafe content, administrators are being asked to make the following changes to your sites, if your RPG rating contains higher than 2 in any rpgrating.com category:

- Age 18+ restriction clearly shown on the main page.
- No users under the age of 18 may join, or continue to have an account.
- Join disclaimers, and rules should change minimum age requirement to 18.
- Ensure that all user accounts have their full date of birth.
- Change settings so that mission posts, and personal logs are not viewable on the main page.

For my part, I will be testing the 18+ content filter in the anodyne add-ons library, and modifying as needed to work with Nova 2.7. This add-on ensures that users who are not logged in cannot view posts or logs, even with a direct link.

The reason for these changes is to ensure that we are in compliance with these evolving laws, while avoiding the need to request that users provide an image of their ID for age verification. I have no intention of resorting to such a shady practice on the internet.

To make things a little easier, I'm giving until August 21st, which is the same day the recently altered jasoncollege24 TOS, and Privacy policies go into effect.

 

Category: Sim Announcement

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