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Message: [QUOTE="Boltneck, post: 648678, member: 29202"] It's fair to say that many of us (myself included) missed the main point of the original post - namely, why is the facility there for play money, but not real money (nothing to do the the rights or wrongs of chat conduct). I don't claim to know the answers, but I'll offer a couple of possibilities. 1) As of 5 minutes ago there were 101,000 active players (according to PS's own figures - I don't know how accurate these are). I had a quick look at the play money tables, and there were approximately 300 of them active - that's a maximum 3,000 players. Obviously, the resourse required to moderate 101,000 is MUCH greater than that required to moderate 3,000 2) [B]This point is only relevant if users that have NOT opened a real money account are NOT allowed to post in real money table chat. [/B]I don't think they are allowed to, but I'm not sure. I can register with Poker Stars (or pretty much any other site) with ficticious details. The rights and wrongs of this are debateable (but not relevant to this discussion). I COULD be an 8 year old child that signs up for example - all I need (at most) is a Hotmail account, and most children have them. To get to the real money tables, I need a real money account, and there is therefore some kind of age verification (eg the the use of a credit card to deposit). So, in effect, there [B]IS[/B] moderation where there is no age verification (play money) and there [B]ISN'T[/B] moderation where there is age verification (real money). I could easily make out a case for this being quite reasonable - even responsible practise. The theory being, an adult should have the sense / ability / judgement to know when to switch off chat (and how to handle the offensive stuff) whereas a child may not. Of course, the entire second arguement is flawed in so much that a child should never be able to get into a gaming site anyway - but that's a completely different arguement, and PS are no different from any other poker site in that respect. Just a thought. Boltneck [/QUOTE]

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