Speaking of AGE....who the hell put ME at 60??????????????

No way can I be 60!!!!!!!!!! Not possible!!!

I am either 16...........or 97.........depending on the day!!!!!!!!!!!!

@curious:

I found this (in Privacy):

Regarding Children
We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors who are under the age of [13].

"INTENTIONALLY" Huh? What does THAT mean? LOL

Do you have other information about the age limit for members?
If you do, can you provide the link and where you found it?

I forget just what DS asked me when I joined (in all innocence). I think that age is 'voluntary' according to TOS and Privacy.

I'm assuming that 'visitors' and 'members' are different? But I don't know.

I somehow got onto a thread that was sexual in nature and descriptive and was in a sexual thread here. I was surprised it was allowed here. I wouldn't want young children reading about blowjobs and all that.

Anyone taken a gander lately?

Yeah, I looked at some of the different sites on DS and some of them were definitely not appropriate for prepubescent children!
And yes, I know it's up to the family to block those sites, since DS isn't willing to do that.

I wonder how many people who are on those adult rated groups have actually blocked those sites to prevent their youngsters from looking.

DS has this as one of their many credos:

"DailyStrength is a warm, caring community where you can discuss anything you like with others in a safe environment. Our primary goal is to offer a secure place where you can reveal as much (or as little) as you choose to reveal about yourself and your life challenges as you meet and interact with other members."

http://www.dailystrength.org/content/view/201

Cave.........have ya seen the last line of that link ya posted????????????

"Notice: This Policy was last updated in January 2007."

That was back in the Doug days..................long since gone.............Dough is now the "Faceless Team DS"......they sucked his face right off him:(:( Poor Doug...............we miss him:(:(:(

Deb---- I saw that last line but figured it was about par for DS. I didn't know about Doug but he does sound like he might have been good for DS.

Maybe we can gather 'round and sing "Pore Doug is Daid" a ka "Oklahoma". All together now.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pore_Jud_Is_Daid

Now that the site is Dr.Oz and Oprah and all them, maybe they don't realize that it's not only helping medical ailments breakups, depression and abuse, but also some explicit sexual content that is on here. Does Dr. Oz and Oprah realize that?

At the end of the day as others have said, it is down to the parents. DS is not there to parent people's kids and cannot control them for you.

If you are not computer literate I would say you should be. There are often free classes available at your local library, or maybe evening classes at local colleges for adult learners. These days it is really important to have some basic grasp of computers and the internet, especially as a parent but also as an adult, it would limit you in many jobs if you had no clue and many things such as jobhunting, council tax, bill paying, banking, are now done mostly or entirely online. By not knowing how to use the internet/computers you can miss out on significant discounts in shopping, holidays, etc too.

Setting parental controls really isn't that hard and doesn't take as much time as you are making out. As far as I know you shouldn't have to set and reset the settings every day, but even if you did it would only take a few minutes (could even be as simple as finding a toggle and switching parental limits to on or off). It is straightforward and may even be in the instruction manual that came with the computer, if not it can be found by going to google and typing in 'how to set parental controls for [put in name of browser/software here]' Or of course you can ask here, people would be happy to step you through it if you ask.

But if you really cannot be bothered to put the basic effort in to learn IT skills, then there is a simple answer - confiscate the cable connecting the computer to the power socket.

You should also set a strong password on the computer, don't use your or anyone's birthday or any actual word they might guess, make it as random as possible, use numbers, punctuation and capital letters. There are websites and things that tell you how to make one up. Every time you step away even for a minute, use ctrl-alt-delete to lock the screen.

As for the age limit being voluntary, I would have thought it had to be - how would they enforce a compulsory age limit, would we have to send them copies of our birth certificate before joining?

I love a good Police State.

I don't think you can institute an age limit, but when it comes to expecting that people are supposed to know everything about the computer, there's where the problem is. I don't have minor children but I have some control set on my computer. But I would never consider myself really computer proficient, and kids just bypass the X box and others to get online (saw that on Dr. Phil).

I worked at many places where secretaries were supposed to be proficient in Workperfect or Word and were not. And thtere weren't learning to become proficient. They just didn't know and the places would not provide anyone to do training to teach them. It's similar to protecting the computer for kids.

But I don't know that D.S. was ever intended to become any version of porn and I believe that is the actual question--what was the actual intentiona and purpose of the sexual boards here.

I found the variious boards to be very safe, and incredible helpful. So did some boards morph?

Its very simple.

Here are all the support sites that fall under Relationships Sexuality:
http://www.dailystrength.org/support-groups/Relationships-Sexuality

There may be member groups created within those sites as well.

If you feel that sites or groups within those sites contain photos or text that isnt in line with DSs Terms of Service or Rules of the Road, you can report abuse here:
http://www.dailystrength.org/help/report-abuse

DS may be slow with their getting their system issues resolved, but they are generally very quickly when you report abuse. And they cant address abuse or content issues if theyre unaware.

So if people are TRULY concerned that there may be some nefarious things occurring, and are not just trying to create an issue where there is none to get people worked up for kicks, then people aught to take action for real.

Man, it's like the villagers are gathering with their lanterns and pitchforks.

Dear me. :)

Maybe it's just me but when I feel something is a genuine issue, I try to take action. So if someone thinks there's a serious matter on DS that warrants action, take the action and report it.

That's all I'm getting at. Otherwise, this is all much ado about nothing.

It would be an awful thing for the abuse forums to have an age limit. They might well be classed as "adult content" but you don't have to be an adult to need them.

A bona fide forum for sexual abuse (esp. for minors) isn't what most people here are objecting to. I'd give some examples of the crap but don't want advertise them.