Quote Originally Posted by athanaric View Post
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Whatever the aim of certain developers who don't have any conscience, computer or console games are not for children. They'll only mess up children's sensory/motoric development at the expense of more useful activities like reading books or playing outside the house. Not to mention content-related concerns. In this respect, games are almost as bad as TV. I think therefore that gaming fora should generally cater to people above the age of 13. Now teenagers are unfortunately very well acquainted with all sorts of horrible words, regardless of how sheltered they've grown up. While a certain level of unpleasantness should of course not be tolerated (words like "milf", which I didn't know before, but somehow find deplorable), I think that sometimes moderators have been on the verge of overzealousness around here.
I see little problem with "WTF", since it's not a sexually-related expression anyway.

If you're going for all-out strict censorship, please be honest and say that it's in order to create a friendlier atmosphere, and not for the sake of some hypothetical kids who shouldn't be playing games anyway.
Hello,

It's both (and maybe more). The 'rule'/'tradition' was already there, but since I'm dutch I normally need more than one excuse to keep or drop stuff.

I'm not sure about games not being for kids: too much of a good thing can (!) be bad. We all need water, but not too much please.

There are risks with too much (clueless whether that's 0.25 or 25 hours a day) games, mental and physical, both for kids and grown-ups. Recently however, a good thing was discovered by accident. People playing computergames develop the skill to make fast decisions. I'ld think that is useful for kids when playing on their bikes outside on the street.

There are probably other benefits too, I agree however that a computer can't cover all and there should be other complementing activities.