Quote Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
Maybe I'm dense.... But how would an "adult's only" section cause worry over pedophiles? As it stands now I think this site probably has a few pedophiles on here. Lets face it, there are a bunch of kids here and if there is a 14 year old on here looking for weed he/she would be a target for any pedo's lurking around.

Despite the fact you aren't supposed to ask for hookups etc. some people still have their AIM accts on here. If a 14 year old were to make a post about how he/she is have problems scoring bud, a pedo could easily IM that child and start talking to he/she outside the forum.

Sorry, I just don't understand how the fear of Pedophiles is reason to shoot down the adult only area...

I just don't think any place on the internet is safe from online predators and can't comprehend how a adult only section would encourage that kind of person. As it stands now, this site seems to have a lot of minors on here. That seems to me like it would encourage pedophiles to hang out here more so than an adult section.

Wouldn't they tend to stay away from something that is adult oriented...? and flock to something that is flooded with kids, some of them to trusting.
I am still grappleing with that comment... AIM,Yahoo,MSN are the pedo targets,,,an open forum IMO has way less a chance to encourage pedo behaver... I thought about the "No PM" rule,,,I can clearly see how that is a deterrent... I am trying to correlate an adult section being a magnet and in my mind the open forum there again would put the kibosh on a perv...