are minors allowed to interact?
I know that rude people online don’t play by “swiper no swiping” rules. Personally, I don’t like the idea of telling everyone all of the ways they could hurt me in a concise little description at the top of my blog.
No bigot or anti shipper or pro shipper or whatever you dislike is going to see your DNI and think “Oh, darn. I was going to send anon hate, but they asked me not to interact! Well, I guess I’ll be on my way, then :(“ They’re just going to add more accurate insults to their hand-crafted hatred. If I was younger, and included an “I’M A MINOR!!!” In my bio, then anyone looking to prey on a kid now knows I’m someone to target. Instead, try blocking mature tags so you don’t end up seeing any content you don’t want to see! It works much better, and is more proactive than just relying on other people to get out of your way.
Things like that are the same reason I don’t include my name, gender, age, job, or any other identifying information. It’s why I have my pronouns set to “any/all”. I just don’t like anyone having my info to use at their whims. I’m sure if you tried hard enough, you could figure a couple of things out about me, but I try to keep it as faceless as possible.
As for the “minors don’t interact” thing, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s not up to me whether some 15 year old stumbles across my blog and decides to follow. I’m not going to comb through all of my followers and block everyone who doesn’t have their signed birth certificate in PDF format to confirm that they’re definitely 100% real adults. I include trigger warnings for suggestive content, violence, and gore. I have it in my pinned post, and every post that needs it. If anyone who’s triggered by those things sees a post, all they have to do is either block me, or block the specific tag. If they click through the warning anyways, it’s out of my hands at that point. I’m not a cop, and it’s not my job to police what other people can see. If you are a minor, and you don’t want to see any of my more mature content, then block tags like “TW suggestive” or “TW gore” or “TW blood”, etc. Or, better yet, just block me if you need to! I state in my pinned post that I will post mature content sometimes.
I go by AO3 rules, pretty much. Don’t like? Don’t read. When I make a more mature post, you can filter it out if you don’t want to see it. If you think you can handle it, be my guest.
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