My $0.2
Well, I guess that was about twenty cents.
Look, dude, this kid isn't being a little prick about what everyone is saying. You have to give him some credit for not having a freak-out-bitch-fit because of what some people are saying. Most of the other minors that have been bluntly spoken to retaliated by spewing shit all over the forum.
I've noticed that this forum has become a lot less inviting to minors (especially new ones) over the few years I have been here. I got off to a bad start too, some of you might remember the necro-posts in the classifieds sections, but I didn't get raped up the ass by the entire forum.
Part of my reasoning to be a bit friendlier to minors comes by thinking as one (I'm one too, you know). They have no one to drive them to the desert whenever they want, they don't quite understand the effects of playing in town most of the time, and usually they can't drive themselves. If they get flamed on here, they will be thinking, "
fuck them, they're all a bunch of pricks on that forum. I'm not listening to those old bastards." One of the most fundamental things we preach is for them to find a legal place to play. So, it might have no effect, if not a reverse effect.
I'm not saying that we should treat them as special, hell; we shouldn't even treat some of them as intelligent beings. Also, a lot of minors have their heads so far up their asses that they got lost; they deserve to be treated like shit.
I might be looking at things differently than many other people here, but
I'm just giving my opinion.