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!

[Eric Suesz]

FYI: It turns out I am seeing something similar on one of my test networks, so I appreciate you bringing it up. I will dig in further and see if we can't get this fixed.

[Chris]

If memory serves me correctly this was a bug also evident at the roll-out, caused by corruption in the data. There may already be a relatively simple fix...

[Robert Hamm]

How do I submit a ticket? (Sorry to be a newb ;-)

[Connie K. Sales]

I am hoping I am asking in the correct place.  I have been trying for awhile to change my minimum age to 18 and it will not save.  It goes back to 13 even though it says it saved my changes.  I only have Ning MIni so I do not believe I am ale to write a ticket to ask for help.  Is there anything I can do? Thank you, any help would be appreciated.

[Evan]

Hey Connie!

I'm sorry that's happening. I tested this on my network and it seemed to be working fine. If you're having trouble, could you drop us note in the Help Center through the "support" link on the dashboard?

/Evan