The only reason it was suggested was, at the time, I thought we'd have a lot of younger members and I didn't want any "sickos" praying on the youth of this site. It would literally kill me to know that some child here was taken advantage of by another member who slipped through the cracks of the registration process.
It hasn't been implimented yet but should we start attracting young members, I may change the entire process. The reason for the ID is that anyone in the world can be traced through a birth certificate. I'd have a better chance informing the authorities of what has transpired.
Also, any members under a certain age (yet to be determined) would have their private messages monitored and certain site permissions revoked all in the interests of their safety.
There was a tremendous amount of time and research put into the registration system prior to the site going online. If I had just pushed on and not considered these, and other, alternatives, we would have been online close to a year earlier.
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