Smokepiper wrote: To Samsam the 10 year old soliciting dating advice and wondering if he should make the first move. No. I repeat, No! That girl has a dad who doesn't want to think about his little girl smooching on boys. You should not make the first move, second move, or any subsequent thing that can be construed as a move.
Go play baseball. Get a paper route. Build a model. Anything but heading down the all consuming road of dating. You're 10. You have plenty of time to obsess about the opposite sex. Mother of God! What is this world coming to? Go out and play.
Sweet Jesus. I've become my father..
Just to be clear (and this is from Zup), there shouldn't be any 10 year olds playing the game. 13 and older is the player agreement.
That said, while we generally try to leave things alone whenever possible (despite all the bans and mutes you see in Blacklist -- some things we cannot leave alone), we all should have a goal of a clean and safe game environment, for the entire age range of the game. Nobody wants to enable predators, and at a certain level of personal conversation, our younger players may be doing just that. So let's all look out for each other, coach, guide, and keep things safe. PM a mod if you need help, or if a player needs to be pinged.
Just from Smoke's post, it doesn't sound like samsam2231 is heading out of bounds with his conversation, but some caution flags are certainly going up. For example, I've muted a player for incessantly asking "are you a girl" to every single player who entered the successive games in which we played. The muting wasn't for the annoying inquiries - it was for what amounted to trolling, that in the end included some descriptions of personal activities that were way over the line. But the girl inquiries certainly led him straight there.
As for samsam2231, his account is showing muted, likely by a mod who saw inappropriate chat at some point. He'll stay muted, as a cue to come on the forum, at which point we'll talk to him about age etc.
Manfred