no support because there were many old staff members that were pretty young and ya know

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No support. I do not think that maturity should be based on age. If you want to judge the maturity of a player, I do not feel that it is fair to judge them based on their age. In my opinion, the only way to tell how mature a certain person is, is to have an actual experience with them. I have met many people who are older than 16 who are very immature, and people who are younger than 16, and very mature people. For example, my family has always told me that I am apparently more mature than most people of my age, and I have had some people on video games such as minecraft, ask how old I was, and when I told them my age, one person's response was "Wow. You seemed like you were like 16 years old, or somewhere around there". My actual age is 13. I have also seen many people who are very immature for their age. There are people at my school who are at least 2 years older than me, and I have heard them at lunch, they literally sit there and someone randomly says an inappropriate word, which I will not repeat, and they all start laughing as hard as they can, just because they know it is an inappropriate word, and think that it is funny. For those of you who are arguing that people who are under a certain age are less likely to be mature, I agree with you, but you should not single out a whole entire age group just because they are more likely to be less mature. I completely agree that a large percentage of people under a certain age are less mature, but a large percentage is not everyone. Again, as I said before, I think that the age requirement is not a good idea, because it is not fair to those people who are more mature than the rest of their age group. The only way to fairly and accurately judge a person's maturity, is to actually have real-life experiences with them. Another example of this argument would be to say that 10 year olds are not intelligent enough to be taking an Algebra 2 highschool course. Now even though this is true for the majority of the population, because you don't start kindergarten until you are 5 years old, (at least in the U.S. you don't until you are 5, but I am not sure about in other countries), there are some exceptions. At my old school, there used to be a 9 year old who was in 10th grade. This is an example of an exception. He was a very intelligent person, and the school did not turn him down because of his age. It wouldn't have been fair for people to say that he couldn't go to their school, just because he was very young, even though he couldn't prove that academically, he was ready. Back to the main point, if a moderator can prove that they have the necessary skills and maturity to be a moderator, I do not see why they should be turned down because of their age.

 

No support

(I'm pretty sure this all already has been mentioned, but I haven't read all of the posts postdéd before this one, sorry!)
If you're under 16 it doesn't mean you're childish, and if you're over 16 it doesn't mean you're mature. It's individual! There are different kinds of people, there isn't an age when you can say: "Now you are DEFINITLY an adult!". That's why I think it's not the best idea...I know enough people who are older than me, but they are way more childish than I am.