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Old 07-24-2008, 11:39 AM   #11
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Re: Childen friendly MUD's?

Speaking for Aardwolf specifically, but my guess is there are a lot of other MUDs in this situation. The general rule is that cursing and adult content stays off public channels other than channels specifically designated as adult. There is a toggle that defaults to off that can be turned on to access these channels, but there is no mechanism to be able to verify the age of someone doing so.

It also doesn't stop "innuendo" of a more adult nature being discussed on public channels until someone steps in and decides it has crossed the line. It doesn't stop people discussing whatever they like on their "friend" channels or group talk etc. It doesn't stop people sending tells, etc etc.

So while the staff attempt to keep public areas mostly PG, things slip through, they always will. It is extremely hard for any MUD to make the claim "children friendly" without monitoring pretty much everything (well, it's easy for them to make the claim I suppose). Even if you monitored everything, it is still reactive, the damage has been done at that point.

So, most MUDS are not listed that way, even though most of the time they might be perfectly fine for someone under 18 to play.

If you felt so inclined you could even make a character on Disney's Toon Town to fire off a barrage of "adult tells" at the kids playing there, nothing is really safe on the net. Sure they probably have "the 7 words" hardcoded out, but not every possible word that means the same thing or every possible intentional-typo.
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