I have loved a good thing about Noobstown which is how they are able to keep the ages in their seats, by enforcing rules of keeping things Child/kid friendly, which is a great thing. But i have had an idea of having a zone where the more mature gamers can talk, one where we are granted some leeway in speaking or speaking about topics which may be considered innapropriate for children (Ages are probably from 13-8 or 6) and allow a zone where the gamers (14 or 15 and upwards) can have their little section on the forums.

 i know this would be a time consuming thing to do, but there could be an easier process of getting users to apply to be allowed in that section of forums, and topics would have no references or no topics about ****ography or Sexual related content.  But it is just a suggestion

-Bc

Well in my area, SOME people are not mature, but the majority are. However, this would be an awesome thing for the older players, but it is just a suggestion

True, i agree with you.

... I'm 12 and I'm the most mature student in my class. I just goof off a little. You know "YOLO"

I know I'm new, but this particular topic hits on something I've been doing myself. I've been an admin on an Ultima Online community for 10 years, specifically with a "mature players only" policy. There are two problems we are constantly coping with.

1) Immature players ALWAYS sneak in. They lie about their age, they act different until they get in, all kinds of ways they get in. Because they WANT to see all the "mature" stuff going on, they don't think it's fair to be excluded, or they want to disrupt the "mature" play because it's "fun".

2) It's a TON of work to maintain. Everyone has a slightly different idea of what it means to be "mature", be it personal definition, cultural bias, what have you. So there is always friction about someone being "immature", someone crossing someone's personal line, etc. It's exhausting.

In spite of those issues, it is certainly possible to run and maintain a "mature" community. But from my personal experience, it's an all or nothing deal. You either run the whole show that way, or you run the whole show a different way. It's easier across the board, it's less exhausting, and you have far fewer loopholes for people to exploit behavior wise.

My personal way of dealing with it, I just behave according to my definition of "mature" and go from there. You still have the occasional "immature" distraction to work through, but a lot less of them than if you publicly set up a known "mature" set up.

This isn't going to happen. We are a family friendly server; everything which happens on our services should be suitable for all ages, this is why we have a strict policy regarding swearing and rude language, etc.. We are a community, we won't be segregating people into groups according to how mature we perceive them to be. It is not going to happen.