Okay, what if we instituted an age requirement on the forums? No offense to anyone here, but the Internet is a harmful place and as someone who had access to certain websites since I was ten years olds I can safely say it's BAD for someone so young to be here. This place should be at minimum 13+ along with most other websites for a case of Internet safety. If the parents don't care enough to monitor their kids, then someone should.
And of course people are going to lie, but it's usually easy to tell when someone is younger than they are saying they are. Kpop is by nature not a super child friendly community, especially with how many songs are about sex regardless of how hidden they supposedly are. While it's impossible to fully control children, it's up to people older than them to at least help.
And to the eleven and younger people on here? YOU SHOULDN'T BE. You should not be on the Internet, especially when you're so young. While this website is far safer than, say, Twitter, since its a smaller, more focused community, it still isn't healthy for you to develop this type of Internet addiction so early on. What happens now has an impact on you for years to come and you have to take care of yourself. With how ubiquitous the Internet is in our modern culture and the unfortunate existence of tablet babies, I get that it's difficult, but yo have to make an effort. So much stuff on here is bad for you, and while it's gotten better over the years, it's nowhere near close to where it should be. Even kids websites are screwed up. Please, don't worry about the Internet for a while. It'll still be here, and when you've developed a bit more, and you're better able to process the things you see, you can always come back. I don't care how mature you are, you're going to hurt yourself. I hurt myself by using the Internet at age eleven and my experience was relatively tame compared to a lot of other people that I know. It's not good to subject yourself to this kind of environment.
And if you're lying about your age to make yourself seem younger than you actually are, that's weird and creepy and you should talk to a therapist! Unless you're age regressing, which is a valid coping mechanism, of course. But if you sign up for a website and go around claiming to be fricking eight year olds for attention, you need help. That's weird. That's so fricking weird.