GaiaOnline

You all say gaia online is this horrible website, where there is porn, cybering, nudity, sexually suggestive content. Have any of you taken the time to turn on your TV to the music station? To the movie stations? Have you seen a PG-13 movie as of late? If you had you'd see that many of the things that are allowed on this website are in those movies, granted yes, there are porn trolls, but trolls don't just exist on gaia, they exist on every forum based website online. Also you should stop blaming the website, stop petitioning it's removal when in fact you need to become more internet savvy, you need to become more aware of what your children are doing, it's not hard to go into your browser history after your child has been on and see what they are up to, and even better, it's not illegal. if you review what they are doing to be wrong you should discuss it with them, you can also buy programs that block the website, firewall it and make it inaccessable to your child unless they have a password. Children are learning about sex in their schools, in what they see on television and what there listening to on the radio, and the books they read. Chances are the things you blame gaia online for are your own short comings, and are things they have known about since they were a child. Hell even when I was a child I knew what sex was before I ever used the internet in my life. Gaia online is a great website, and there are moderators and staff that work as fast as they can to ban people who prey on children and those who post real nudity. All there moderating staff consists of adults and a good amount of those adults are actually parents themselves, I have in my time on the site met many parents who play gaia. Once again I'll repeat it for the mere sake of being redundant, it's not gaia onlines responsibility to safeguard any child OVER the age of thirteen, that's your responsibility. So become more aware, be in your childs business, but not over their shoulder. AZK

ive been on it for years and it seems mostly the talk about sexual content and drugs come from the younger children on there trying to act cool if you dont like your kids being on there keep them off cause gaia already tried to disable the ciggarettes but everyone was against it so they brought them i hate how everyone worries about gaia if some talks sexual block them and leave or just wait for them to leave cause usalley its just trolls and dont go into the mature forums you know adults like to post stuff too so i say make it 15 and up and keep your freaking children off the site if your gonna have a hissy fit

Okay, let me clear it up for all you irresponsible parents and butthurt Gaians out there. Gaia is a 13+ site, meaning that it caters to TEENAGERS, YOUNG ADULTS, AND ADULTS. If you think Gaia is the place for young children, hit that back browser right now, because it is illegal for them to be on the site. Also, I see a lot of negative reviews about there being rude people on Gaia. If people are just being critical to you, grow a thick spine and stop being butthurt. If people are flaming you left and right, you're supposed to report it using the report button. And speaking of the report button, if you see anything that violates the Gaia TOS, report it. The moderators work hard to make sure that Gaians follow the rules. They can't get all the rulebreakers since there's so little of few and so many members (150 against 23 million users), so that's why they need YOU to report so they can clean up the bad contents faster. Lastly, Gaia is not your babysitter. If your child chooses to take sexual images of his/herself, it is YOUR AND YOUR CHILD'S FAULT, not Gaia's. You should be teaching your child what to do and what not to do on the internet.

I've been on Gaia since I was 12 (Shhh, don't tell the Mods, that's AGAINST THE RULES TO BE ON UNDER 13) My main 'concern' is Gaia Cash (real money) has been growing in use on the site, but whatever, it's not p2p (pay to play). Gaia is a great site, overall. It's forums can be either very educational or very vulgar depending on where you go. The mods are only volunteers who work as hard as they can, but thing's slip by SOMETIMES. You won't get hacked unless you give out your password, and since it's plastered all over the site "DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR PASSWORDS TO ANYONE!" it's totally your own fault if you do get hacked. BY law, you can't be on there if you are 12 or under, and PG-13 in California, means you can swear as long as you aren't swearing AT someone or using it in sexual context. Sexual content is allowed as long as it isn't over-the-top or full-on nudity. Not only is Gaia a great forum-based site, but it also has many other fun features like Puzzles, or it's MMORPG, zOMG. Gaia is always improving it's features and creating more spiffy items for our avatars. In conclusion, Gaia isn't appropriate (nor should it be) for people under 13, but for people over 13 it is a fun website that is always improving!