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practicality ([personal profile] practicality) wrote2006-08-02 07:50 pm
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Age

There's a handful of communities on LJ I'd like to join (almost all DMC, actually - - no other fandom I've been in has been so damned obsessive about hiding their pr0n), but haven't, simply because they require you to be over eighteen, with a year of birth listed in your profile. And I'm not comfortable doing that, even now that I am over eighteen, and it took me a while to figure out why.

I think it's a carry-over from my earlier days in fandom, particularly with X. I was fourteen when I first started getting into the X fandom, which skews a lot more towards early to mid-twenties. And I never told anyone my age unless they outright asked, because I didn't want to be seen as the young kid in the fandom. And I still don't. Yeah, I'm eighteen now, but I still hang with people a lot older than me, and I don't want to be judged by how old I am, I want to be judged by who I am as a person.

Which I guess means no DMC pr0n for me >.>
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[identity profile] ext_81920 (from dreamwidth.org) 2006-08-03 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Some communities and moderators will let you in with an e-mailed age statement if you're not comfortable with a year of birth listed in your profile (since some people, especially outside of North America, have very real concerns about identity theft using their date of birth-- this is something that came up with British LJ users during the whole "list your year of birth to make our stats more accurate!" debacle). Not all of them, by any means, but sometimes it's worth a try to ask.

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2006-08-03 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
I know right off at least one of them requires it be listed, no other option - there was actually a post from the mod saying that people who took their birthdate out of their profile after they were accepted had to put it back in or be cut :\ Will ask about the other ones, though, thanks.
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