can you access moderate areas when u are 17?

[leogirl94]

I was wondering if u can access moderate areas when u turn 17 because one of my friends said that u could but i can't get to a moderate area?

[Rolig Loon]

No.  If you're 16-17 years old you can only access regions and search results that have a General maturity rating. 



[Risto Shim]

Yes, I think that you can access mature areas with 17 years of age.

The only regions that you cannot access with 17 years of age are the Adult regions, you must be over 18 years of age, to the other regions (PG and Mature) should you haven´t problems to access them.

Greetings

[Rolig Loon]

NO.  That is flat-out wrong.  See http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Teens_in_Second_Life.  If you are under the age of 18 and are in areas that are not rated G, you are in violation of the TOS and risk being permanently banned from SL.  The rules are very clear.  See the TOS, Section 2.2: " Users 16 and 17. If you are at least 16 years of age but less than 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, if it is greater), then you may only access areas of the Service rated General in accordance with our Maturity Ratings. ...... Your Accounts may be supsended or terminated immediately without warning or any refund or other compensation if we believe that you are under 13 years of age, if we believe you are under 18 years of age and you represent yourself as 18 or older, or if we believe you are over 18 and represent yourself as under 18."

[Risto Shim]

@Rolig Loon:

Hi Rolig in the article Maturity rankings of Knowledge Base said that Mature areas are accommodates most of the non-adult activities of Second Life, for example dance clubs, bars, stores and malls, galleries, music venues, beaches, parks, etc.

Also said that the Adult areas are the regions that host, conduct, or display content that is sexually explicit, intensely violent, or depicts illicit drug use.  A region must be designated Adult if it hosts, advertises, or publicly promotes, and to access these areas you must be age verified, you must be age verified to be 18 years of age or older

In this other article entitled Age verification says that to register in Second Life you must be at least 16 years old:

" When you register for Second Life, you provide your birth date, because you are required to be at least 16 years old."

Maybe I'm wrong but I think that access to Mature areas must be at least 16 years of age, which is the minimum age to enter Second Life and if you are between 13 and 15 years of age you cannot be in Second Life, you must be in Teen Second Life

Greetings

[Rolig Loon]

You ARE wrong. That's why I copied and posted verbatim the specific section of the TOS that says very clearly, "If you are at least 16 years of age but less than 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, if it is greater), then you may only access areas of the Service rated General in accordance with our Maturity Ratings." It can't be any clearer than that: "YOU MAY ONLY ACCESS AREAS OF THE SERVICE RATED GENERAL". If you are telling residents under the age of 18 that they can enter non-G areas, you are setting them up to be banned.
Incidentally, there is no such thing as Teen Second Life. That grid was removed last year. Anyone 13-15 years old may be on the main grid, but is restricted to a specific G-rated area that is owned by a LL-approved sponsoring agency (a school or youth organization, for example).