Age Checks Are Stupid

[StarCecil]

Am I the only one annoyed by age checks on the internet? I can understand if the site is strictly adult content such as porn or gratuitous violence, but when a website has, at most, PG-13 content (such as certain game trailers or film websites [bonus points if the film itself is PG-13 or below]) it's just annoying.

A minute ago I clicked on the Mark Strong interview here on the Escapist and almost X-ed out of the site because it wanted me to exert the effort to click month/day/year. I'm a full-grown adult! Besides, there's no age checks on the uncensored forums (which for me are a main attraction on the Escapist).

 

[Battleaxx90]

The worst part about them is how easy they are to fool. Before I turned 18, I can't count the amounts of times I said I was over 100 years old on an age checker. Damn thing bought it every time!

 

[StarCecil]

The worst part about them is how easy they are to fool. Before I turned 18, I can't count the amounts of times I said I was over 100 years old on an age checker. Damn thing bought it every time!

Exactly. So much porn, at my fingertips. Among other parts of my anatomy.

 

[Evelynia]

I don't personally mind doing it, because I know that it's there for legal reasons and keeps the site out of trouble. Still, the fact that you have to enter it over and over again gets quite old, if only there could be an option to just get I.D.'ed once and have done with it.

 

[Merkavar]

Snip.

You serious? its to shift blame onto the user for viewing adult or mature content.

 

[Merkavar]

double post

 

[StarCecil]

Snip.

You serious? its to shift blame onto the user for viewing adult or mature content.

And my physically visiting this site (or any of the plethora of adult sites) doesn't immediately make that implicit?

As an aside, that little chart would have been funnier if it weren't so ironic.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Really, I wouldn't begrudge the escapist to have a freaking cookie that meant I didn't have to enter my age every time I wanted to look at a trailer that doesn't even have anything offensive in it, but is for an M rated game. Hell, even make it a perk of having an account and I'd be quite thankful.

Of course, the ultimate irony is the often foul-mouthed Yahtzee has no mature disclaimer or age check. Honestly, he's far more damaging than 99% of the trailers on here.

 

[triggrhappy94]

This reminds me of my high school psychology.
The teacher wanted to show the movie Stand By Me, but the movie is R so he needed people to get permission slips signed. He gave them out and asked for them back the next day, which is a little irresponsible as one of my friends yelled out. That next day came around, literally half the class didn't have the slip signed, so EVERYONE was forging the note in class while the teacher was going around and collecting them. The teacher was cool about it though, he'd look at the notes and give the kid's who he knew had forged it a hard time, laugh, then moved on.
There was no threat of any legal problems though because everyone was 17 or older.

 

[StarCecil]

Really, I wouldn't begrudge the escapist to have a freaking cookie that meant I didn't have to enter my age every time I wanted to look at a trailer that doesn't even have anything offensive in it, but is for an M rated game. Hell, even make it a perk of having an account and I'd be quite thankful.

Of course, the ultimate irony is the often foul-mouthed Yahtzee has no mature disclaimer or age check. Honestly, he's far more damaging than 99% of the trailers on here.

And he sometimes has depictions of sex, nudity and adult "toys" to boot.