Poll: Internet Age Verification Tools. What do you do?

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

you know what they should do instead? they should put up a question like

"Is Hanson a- a crappy old boy band b- a type of vegetable c- etc

 

[Brandon237]

Depends, if I must be older than I am (or I suspect that anyway), then I am born in 1990. Seriously, I am... what???

 

[Reynard Wrecce]

I'm 31. I tell the truth.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

I'm 21 (gaaaawd, I'm old.) - so why care? Usually I take a random day, because scrolling THAT wide is too much work.

You think you're old, man I'm 28! Probably among the oldest in the site. And yeah, I just click whatever in the year column, I've been legal for 10 long damn years already!

 

[Jodah]

If I just need to change year to get in (it already has January 1 as the day) I just change it to a random year beyond that needed for speed. If I have to enter everything I put in my real one.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Since I'm over 18 (or over 21 if they ask for that age limite) I got nothing to hide.

 

[Avalanche91]

legal for everything, but to lazy to type in the correct date, so I basically fill in random. But I also did that when I wasn't legal for everything

 

[Scrustle]

Although I don't even need to, I usually lie. It's just easier to put in some random age that's over 18 years than actually stop to put my real DoB in. It's totally pointless. Doesn't stop anyone. The fact that the thing pops up means that the person trying to access the content knows that they have to be over 18 to see it, and there's no way of anyone knowing they will lie, so that's exactly what they do.

 

[JackyG]

Im 19. But my birthday is usually 1st january 18 years ago..

 

[Custard_Angel]

I'm over 21, so I just put in whatever age. Usually within the range of 21-40 or so.

 

[newdarkcloud]

While I'm old enough, I can only be bothered to input my birthyear.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

I put the oldest date I can. I know others who do, and I like to think some game site is changing their site to be more friendly to their huge over 80 demographic.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

Im legal, but i still lie because it's normally easier

 

[wangtron5000]

It's a hassle. So I also just pick a random old year, and it makes me happy to think If they ever use it to find out the sites core demographic, they will think we are all 90.

 

[Benny Blanco]

I'm legal for everything so...I put in my actual birth-date.

Same thing he said.

 

[Mugen Weston]

I'm 21 so yeah, I just go with my actual date of birth

 

[Smurf McSmurfington]

Ehh... I normally just put the year to the early 1900's, can't be bothered with putting in my actual birth date - would take more than 1-2 seconds and that is unacceptable to me.
And I am OVER 18, make no mistake about that. The age restrictions themselves are somewhat arbitrary, though. And stupid.
OH WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

 

[harvz]

im 19, i usually aim for a year thats early 1990's. btw, im aussie so 19 is a legal adult in all aspects.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Although I'm legal for everything, I can't be bothered to select my birth date. I just mash random numbers, because generally when I want to watch a video, I want to do so post-haste.

Faffing about with a frankly useless age verification doesn't even solve anything. Even if a given person IS underage, there's nothing to stop them just saying that they're 10,000 years old. It's just a pointless time waster.

 

[Deadyawn]

Random date for me. It's too much hassle to search for my actual birthdate. Also I think it'd be pretty amusing if you kept track of how old everyone said they were each time and then averaged it and compared it too the average lifespan of a human. I get the feeling we'd see a rather major discrepancy. We get the figures back and like the average internet user is 153 years old.