# Age requirement for Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/age-requirement-for-discourse/401602
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [April 27, 2026, 11:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/age-requirement-for-discourse/401602 "2026-04-27T11:31:58Z")
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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/age-requirement-for-discourse/401602/34 "2026-05-01T00:05:49Z")

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> [@darkpixlz](#):
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> Honestly no community is good enough to make me want to show my face or ID. It feels increasingly relevant nowadays, but if I see a site ask for my face/ID, I just close the tab and forget it exists because I am a strong digital privacy advocate.

The downside is that you may eventually find yourself surrounded by bots because the communities that don’t verify identity will be the only ones they can join too.

> [@chapoi](#):
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> You can think the proposed solutions are bad, and I agree some of them genuinely are and hate them too, without treating the underlying problem as something parents could just solve if they tried harder.

Well said.

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