there are many young users and it would be a great help to create a more protected environment for them. one main suggestion is for parents to be able to lock the under 18 setting. another suggestion is to have more accurate tagging on the models and maybe another category for weapons or something like that.
Right, but even if parents lock the under 18 setting they can just log out of that account and create their own, there are no ID checks performed
Tags are decided by the uploaders so if they aren’t accurate then you can tell the model creator, bambu doesn’t set those tags
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you definitely have a point but first of all, not everyone under 18 would care if its locked. second, they might not even think about that approach. third, not everyone under 18 knows how to do do that.
you are correct though that it wouldnt help in some cases but i think that for majority of cases this would be more helpful.
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Pretty sure most kids want to hide what they are doing from their parents and they know how to create accounts unless they are like 4 years old, and those aren’t going to even know what NSFW content is
Ultimately it makes no real difference as it won’t do anything to actually prevent those that want to view this content from viewing it, which would be the entire reason for creating a way to block it
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you’re right but i still think that it will at least help under 18 users from seeing NSFW content accidentaly and also there are still plenty of kids who wont care. and besides dont tell me that every or even most kids under 18 are creating accounts just to look at or to create NSFW models. that sounds a little absurd if you think about it. most of them will probably shrug and move on.
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Right, but if they don’t care they aren’t going to untick the option, so there is no reason to lock it
And you greatly underestimate the things people will do to look at things they shouldn’t be looking at, i remember those sweet days of being that naive 
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Or maybe parent your children…
If they really want to do something, they will do it.
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exactly! only the ones who really want it. but most who want it care enough to unclick it but dont care enough to start a whole new account for it. and besides, i’m not underestimating anyone because makerworld isnt such a good site to “look at things they shouldnt be looking at”. there are other easier sites to do that. thats why i think adding a little more strictness to it will help a lot. they will just go somewhere else.
With all due respect, you have no idea how children think. They can easily bypass all the filters and restrictions these days. I was bypassing all all of them at the age of 12, after all. Everyone in our school class did that.
Children need parents who talk to them about using the internet responsibly.
I don’t see a problem on the part of MakerWorld here, but rather someone who doesn’t understand children. Trust me, they watch far worse things when their parents aren’t around. You don’t have to approve of it, but it’s impossible to prevent when every child has a mobile. And if you forbid it your own child, for example, then they’ll just go to the neighbor’s kid.
The only thing that helps is what has worked in the past: talking to your children.
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So, how many kids have smartphones?
So, given most of them own a phone and that they have in most cases have created their own account on that, what makes you think its effort you create a new account on MW when SSO exists?
Its basically zero effort you create an account
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Have you heard of YouTube Kids for young users? Are truly that many young children being protected by YouTube Kids?
The same applies here. These preemptive access restriction policies are ineffective, inconvenience the vast majority of adult users who should not be affected by the policy, and furthermore, once applied, flawed regulations are difficult to undo.
In this regard, I can say that Korea has one of the strongest policies in the world. In South Korea where I live, All sites that handle or could potentially handle adult content require users to provide and verify their name, phone number, mobile carrier, and date of birth during registration through an identity verification system. This system checks whether the user is actually an adult by accessing telecom provider databases, and this identity verification system is identical to the one used when signing up for banks, card companies, or financial institutions in Korea. This information is also stored indefinitely for as long as the account remains active. It sounds like a pretty decent system. Isn’t it?
But what is the reality? Due to indiscriminate collection of personal information, massive data leaks occur whenever websites are hacked. Worse, account selling and sharing have become more commonplace, and cases of identity theft using parents’ or others’ names have increased. It’s gotten so bad that there’s even a joke that Koreans’ personal information is a public resource.
The only solution is for parents to play a role in instilling proper education and values through conversation with their children. Such regulations merely pique curiosity without providing adequate protection.
you still have to admit that it will help to some extent
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it would make sense to be able to lock the 18 plus setting or else there’s barely any purpose to it.
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Most on here seem to not understand that yes we know kids will do what they want and quickly learn how to get around barriers but the point is as you point out it initially would mean that they would not see unsuitable material when they opened up makerworld. If they chose to then yes there’s not much you can do but it’s simply and initial deterrent as such. You are also correct a lot of younger children will not be bothered and I speak as a teacher of some 20 years experience.
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Honestly most of the internet is a censored safe place where we all do as if there were no bad things, no â– â– â– but accept plenty of violence.
I find it refreshing that makerworld isn’t trying to be that.
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