Increase the Minimum Required Age of Your Members + All Ning Mentions in Terms of Service Now Removed

[Eric Suesz]

Hello, again, Network Creators. Seasons greetings!

We made a few changes today that I think most of you will be happy to hear about. You now have more choices about who can sign up for your network — specifically around the age of new members.

FIrst, you now have the choice to increase the minimum required age of your members. Is your network only meant for Baby Boomers who are over 60? You can now change the minimum age to reflect this. And your Terms of Service will be automatically changed to reflect your new age requirement.

Second, you can now do away altogether with asking for birth dates during sign up. Your new members will still be required to accept your Terms of Service (with a minimum age of 13), even if you turn off the birth date check.

You'll find these new options in the Members > Controls section of your management dashboard.

We also updated your network’s default Terms of Service to add our standard DMCA notice guidelines and to remove the last few mentions of “Ning.” There is no longer any mention of Ning in your default network Terms of Service.

I know that most of these have been requested in the past a number of times, so we’re happy to be giving you these new options.

Hope your holidays are looking bright!

[adrian gladney]

off topic. is forum not updating?

[Writer Chick {Diane}]

Eric is playing around with the forum this week, Adrian. Rearranging things and trying out new stuff.  So, our new discussions aren't posting to the top of the list anymore.  At least for now.  You have to go to the Forum tab and look for latest replies.  Not convenient at all.

[Andrea Kelly]

Hooray!  That mandatory birthdate was a real impediment. 

[Community Consultancy]

The age function and the new terms of service are better than before.

But why only for 13 years old people?

Kids are beginning to ride bicycles and special kids motorcycles/trikes/quads with 4 years!

We want to futher kids with our network, but in your terms of service is written only for 13 years old people!

Our main network is www.bikerhimmel.com

 

[Chris]

COPPA

[Izak Boyes-Jackson]

Hi, is there any possibility of ning releasing a maximum age?

 

One of my networks is for 14 to 18 year olds and we do not want anyone over 18 being able to join. Also we would like it to automatically remove them once they turn 18 and send them a message saying why.

 

Thanks

[Evan]

Hey Izak!

We'll look at adding this down the road, but maximum age limits probably won't be added anytime soon.

/Evan

[Will Lawless]

Hello - I just tried to change age from 13 to 18 and it would not save. I tried other ages and they did not save, me fail...

[Eric Suesz]

Hi, Will. That doesn't sound good. May I ask you to submit a ticket for this one? Or, if you already have, let me know that ticket number? I would definitely like to route this to one of our engineers to take a close look.

[Andrea Cortiano]

Great News!

[Robert Hamm]

I experience the same behavior. I change the minimum age and hit save but it reverts to the default of 13 and there is no way to save the changes that works for me.

[Eric Suesz]

Hmmm. Robert or Will: Have either of you submitted a ticket about this? I'm not seeing one in our system, but if this is not working for you I definitely want to have someone look at it. Does it work same way in a different browser? I'm going to do some testing and try to replicate this. I'll report back.