Every day I get at least one email from people asking me to manually activate their OGRE forum account because they answered the COPPA question wrong:
Honestly, how hard is this to answer correctly?
*sigh*
Man bites Ogre
Every day I get at least one email from people asking me to manually activate their OGRE forum account because they answered the COPPA question wrong:
Honestly, how hard is this to answer correctly?
*sigh*
January 20th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Do they speak native english?
Maybe “= 19 Jan 1996″ or better yet “Are you over 12?”
[)amien
January 20th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
It depends on your definition of confusing words like “Before” and “born”.
January 20th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Well, this is the standard phpBB3 prompt which I assume has been tested against more language speakers than I know.
The previous version of phpBB used to ask whether you were 13 or over, and I got just as many of these emails then too.
January 20th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Can’t you just deactivate it? Why do you have to care about US legislation?
January 20th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I’m playing it safe by leaving it on. We were hosted in the US until relatively recently after all – I assume I could remove it now we’re hosted in the UK but I haven’t looked into it.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:58 am
It took three minutes to think before I answered.
(Russian %) )
January 21st, 2009 at 9:19 am
Ok, I’m going to disable this COPPA nonsense – although the FTC doesn’t say anything about server location, they shouldn’t be able to enforce their silly rules if the server is outside their shores. Not that it stops them trying sometimes.
January 21st, 2009 at 9:49 am
In my mind, it needs a mandatory comma ‘,’ between the word ‘procedure’ and ‘please’. This will be read smoothly.
But I agree with your decision to disable it