Poll: How old are you?

[Bat Vader]

Are you seriously saying that people here are immature?

They are.

Some are yes. But not everyone.

 

[Nouw]

Guess how old I am please. I bet you can't find out. I post like a mature person but am I that age? Am I? Am I?

EDIT:Too many teens.

 

[THEMANWHOIS]

I'll be 22 on September 23. So close...

 

[Naheal]

I'm interested in the average age of the Escapist reader, particularly in this forum. Some, if not most, of the comments made seem so racist, sexist, homophobic and generally intolerant that they would make a lot more sense if they were being posted by children. I'd like to find out therefore if people are actually physically immature or just mentally so.

You sure this is the forum you're thinking of?

This is not the forum that you're looking for.

 

[KittywifaMohawk]

I'm 16.
And I've been on this forum for over a year, and I've barely noticed those kind of comments.
Yes I've seen then here and there, but not often.

 

[zen5887]

I am 19!

And yeah, I've seen some pretty stupid comments on here..

 

[theklng]

you should have put the poll to be 13-19, 20-24, 24-30. the closer you get to the center of the bell curve, the smaller gaps you want for collecting said data.

I know it isn't ideal spacing but I specifically wanted 1-12 (preteen) and 13-17 (teen) age groups separate from any adult categories. I wasn't too worried about collecting a definitive statistical average. I haven't even sat down and worked it out yet.

technically eighteen and nineteen are still teens...

Yes, however 18 is considered the year of entry into adulthood in most countries.

21 is another major year, but i don't see that one listed as specific either?

 

[Tranka Verrane]

21 is another major year, but i don't see that one listed as specific either?

21 isn't particularly major, and there's no huge functional difference between 21 and 24. 21 holds a much greater historical significance than it does a practical one. At 18 you are old enough to vote, get married and have sex. At 21 in the US you can what, drink? Big deal.

Also I was trying to edge towards reducing that gap to a more regular one.

 

[theklng]

21 is another major year, but i don't see that one listed as specific either?

21 isn't particularly major, and there's no huge functional difference between 21 and 24. 21 holds a much greater historical significance than it does a practical one. At 18 you are old enough to vote, get married and have sex. At 21 in the US you can what, drink? Big deal.

Also I was trying to edge towards reducing that gap to a more regular one.

shit, where i come from you can have sex at 15, drink at 16 and drive at 18 (technically you can drive at 17 too). 18 is more of a historical average of bordering into adulthood; but the thing is that adulthood isn't a level up - adulthood comes gradually, specifically in the ages between 18 and 21.

 

[Lord_Durin]

I'm 20, and the only hate-posts I've seen are quickly deleted and the users banned/suspended.

Of course, any forum is bound to have its flamers and trolls. still, these tend to be less sex/race/religion based and more PC vs Console/Anti-Wii/Anti-[insert game name here] based.

 

[Tranka Verrane]

21 is another major year, but i don't see that one listed as specific either?

21 isn't particularly major, and there's no huge functional difference between 21 and 24. 21 holds a much greater historical significance than it does a practical one. At 18 you are old enough to vote, get married and have sex. At 21 in the US you can what, drink? Big deal.

Also I was trying to edge towards reducing that gap to a more regular one.

shit, where i come from you can have sex at 15, drink at 16 and drive at 18 (technically you can drive at 17 too). 18 is more of a historical average of bordering into adulthood; but the thing is that adulthood isn't a level up - adulthood comes gradually, specifically in the ages between 18 and 21.

 

[Tranka Verrane]

shit, where i come from you can have sex at 15, drink at 16 and drive at 18 (technically you can drive at 17 too). 18 is more of a historical average of bordering into adulthood; but the thing is that adulthood isn't a level up - adulthood comes gradually, specifically in the ages between 18 and 21.

To repeat myself: Legal adulthood comes, in most countries, at 18. Adulthood in an experience and practical sense comes sometime between 13 and death, and possibly not even then. I know I saw myself as much more mature at 21 than I see myself now. Perspective is a very odd thing. For most people it happens when your children become old enough to start arguing with you.

 

[latenightapplepie]

19. Going on 12.

 

[Tranka Verrane]

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I'm not going to enter into an argument with you when this is plainly all you want. This is exactly the kind of immature posturing and hectoring to which I was referring.

 

[barryween]

I'm interested in the average age of the Escapist reader, particularly in this forum. Some, if not most, of the comments made seem so racist, sexist, homophobic and generally intolerant that they would make a lot more sense if they were being posted by children. I'd like to find out therefore if people are actually physically immature or just mentally so.

I have always hated the stereotype that just because a person is young doesn't mean he has to be racist, sexist or homophobic etc. Just because your young doesn't mean that you have bad values. Generaly younger people will follow values imposed by older people who are scared of different values. I think today's youth culture is a lot more tolerant than the fifty-something daily mail reader.

This.
I mean, for god's sakes I have higher values than most people ages 18-28.
I don't discriminate based on race, I don't care if you are gay or not and many girls at my school feel easy talking to me because I view women as equals.
So... there's that...

I'm at the lower end of the 13-17 range.