Underage Users (Minors) on 4chan

What is your opinion on minors (people under the age of 18) using 4chan, moot? Of course you are required by federal law to prevent the illegal viewing of adult material by underage users, but what is your PERSONAL opinion on them? Do you condone their using your site? Do you condemn them because of the material on here? What do you consider to be the youngest you'd think a user should be in order to maturely and appropriately interact on this website? Seeing how you created this site at only 15-years old yourself, you're bound to have at least SOME opinion on this issue. Especially considering how minors make up a significant portion of the users on this site, your views regarding their presence is important. Of course you can't allow for them to knowingly use this site, nor can you change your rules regarding age limits, but your opinion despite this restrictions is valuable nevertheless.

>TL;DR: What is your opinion on underage users on 4chan, moot?

For everyone else, what are your opinions? Of course very young children shouldn't be allowed and immature kids, such as 12-year old kids and the like, shouldn't use this site. What of adolescents, though? Are users aged 14-17 really such an issue? Or is there just a misconception around that part of the userbase and they're targeted simply due to their age (ageism)? What is your opinion? Many of you have undoubtedly used 4chan before you were 18 and some of you still may, so try to consider the effects your opinions would have on those who are currently in the position you were in. For those of you who did/do use 4chan before you're 18, did/does your usage of this site help or hinder you more? Did it help you develop your views and beliefs, or did it traumatize you? Remember that this is an anonymous board, so there's no need to reveal your age, especially if you're underage.

Damn this board  is used so little now

minors can fap to cp without getting in prison, nothing can beat that

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

The eternal dilemma. To charge money to preserve quality or to keep it free, at the risk of popularity running it in the ditch? Even so, don't people still get their fix by going on reddit and similar sites that "borrow" from 4chan to such an extent it basically mirrors it? Its everywhere. Not at all like it was when I first came here, back then Internet forums had their own ecosystem. Well, they still do so it might just be that 4chan spring-boarded a formerly underground culture into the mainstream, making sites dedicated to similar culture less distinguishable. Being inside such a fold of special interest can mean many things to a person of young age, so I'm sure it's valuable as long as it gets traffic from passionate people. I rarely visit anymore but I'm certain if 4chan stays the way it is it could be a very valuable resource in navigating many post 2000 counterculture movements, even though many archives are imperfect and lack comprehensively archived pre-2008 content...