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RE: Steemit Update [ August 14th, 2023 ] : Community Curators for September - Applications Open

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Thanks again for giving the community the chance to be a curator🫶🏼

I’ll be applying again!

However following the success of the Steem Kids and the CryptoKids communities in introducing younger Steemians to the platform Steemit Inc now considers the age of 13 to be a guideline rather than a hard rule. As long as accounts are actually operated by the young people themselves, and as long they are supervised by parents or other suitable adults, it will be fine for people younger than 13 to participate on the platform. Individual communities will be free to decide what minimum age they are willing to accept amongst their members.

This is a very important and necessary update, thank you for providing it. I think that the children's communities have done well (especially Steem Kids where I had the opportunity to work and support but that I had to abandon due to the lack of stable internet that I had in the past)

I think the healthiest thing to be able to continue working with children is to work on forging these specific communities so that they are safe spaces for them to interact. After all this controversy I have been thinking of starting some kind of dedicated web interface for children, a "Steemit Kids". The main features could be:

  • Filter the NSFW content.

  • Show specific communities or labels for children.

  • Create a friendly and easy-understand interface for minors.

  • Offer tools to make the use of Markdown more dynamic.

It is a somewhat big idea, but I think it would be a very striking solution and that would greatly facilitate the inclusion of children (reducing even more the use of these accounts by parents)

As @nahela said me before, A good method for children to be included in the content creation process is to teach them how to create videos, and upload those videos to the platform.

There is a lot of ideas around the community, I will do my best to contribute as much as I can in this matter to keep the things clean and fair!

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I agree with you because I don't feel comfortable when I see young kids posting here during school time. I think most of these accounts are being handled by parents themselves and their content proves my point further when I see the writing style of parents and the kids has no difference. Thanks for raising this issue. And yes, their participation be limited to appropriate communities.

Saludos amigo.

Hay formas de verificar que son niños, algo bueno puede salir de todo esto, un Steemit Kids sería estupendo.
Los videos tienen sus ventajas, ayudan a verificar que son los niños quienes hacen su aporte creativo y a su vez es mas fácil el proceso para ellos.

Vamos a ver como evoluciona el tema.