[LinuxBender]

I don't have a horse in this race but in my opinion a more graceful way to deal with this is to freeze the account until the under-16 is over-16 so they don't lose their friend connections, history, etc... The under 16 should have time to add a comment saying how to contact them otherwise. Discord group, etc... There must be a reason to remove the account that I can not see.

[dyauspitr]

Ideally they do lose all of that. That’s the root of the problem.

[gus_massa]

It may include all my friends from primary school and a photos of my late grandma.

(Disclaimer: I'm so old that at 16 I didn't ever had email. Please don't delete all my old stuff.)

[aleph_minus_one]

> Ideally they do lose all of that. That’s the root of the problem.

Where is the problem with this?

The problem rather is that the user did not create a private backup of the data that he wants to keep.

[kranner]

Possible contact with pedophiles, groomers, etc.

Once the child is over 16, they can add all their real-world friends again.

[LinuxBender]

Could a possible solution there be to use the same language detection platforms used for detecting terrorist activity to also flag possible grooming for human moderator review? Or might that be too subjective for current language models leading to many false positives?

[Hizonner]

AKA stupid paranoia.

[acdha]

This is far too pat a dismissal of something which happens regularly. You can argue that it’s not frequent enough to justify this action or would happen anyway through other means but it’s a real problem which isn’t so freakishly rare that we can dismiss it.

[johnisgood]

Discord is for people over 13 years of age in many countries, yet there are many minors there. It is not working.

[dec0dedab0de]

I thought the problem was the addictive nature of the feed