Rant abt safe vs 18+ server

Since Ive been seeing an influx of people talking abt minors in the 18+ server + minors coming out and talking about their negative experiences with the safe server, I'm going to be copy and pasting an old comment on the topic I made a month ago.

"I think people need to realize the only way to truly keep minors safe online is to either not discriminate by age or ENFORCE their age restrictions via ID'ing their players. It's just not realistic for most minors to understand nor care WHY they can't be in the adult server, especially after bad experiences with the safe one. Either we need to ban NSFW content completely and keep it strictly for private party islands or we do the latter.

But most of the adults don't actually care about protecting minors, they just want to cover their own asses rather than find a different site to ERP on or go through the hassle (and uncomfortableness) of providing photo ID to a website.

Minors SHOULDNT be in the 18+ server, but that isn't a realistic request and just saying that SHOULD be the case will not and never will fix anything. ESPECIALLY given how unsafe the "safe server" is.

In my opinion, it's kind of ridiculous seeing people encourage the children to go to the server THAT HAS ADULTS CONSTANTLY PLAYING W THE INTENTION OF GROOMING because it's too much of a hassle to just not fucking talk about sex. I might get downvoted to hell for this, but you do not actually care about minor safety if this is the case.

Once again, clarification on my stance, minors SHOULD NOT be in the 18+ server but they also shouldn't be in the safe server either. In fact, theres arguments to be made that they shouldn't be playing ANY MMO with a chat feature technically. But that's not the world we live in and its our responsibility as adults to make sure these minors are safe regardless because we are all playing with the knowledge that there are minors in the 18+ server regardless of our wishes and we should act accordingly."

I'm kind of sick of people straight up victim blaming literal children who had personal bad experiences with actual predators and being told they need to go BACK to the place where they felt unsafe because the poor poor adults can't talk about sex in public anymore. If you really cannot hold your tongue just whisper or go to a party island.

The safe server is NOT safe for children. And until that's fixed, we should try our best to be accommodating.

I'm open to debate and discussion of course but Ive just not heard a decent arguement for the alternative yet