In my opinion not allowing fen under 18 into the archive is ridiculous. Isn't the whole point of the archive to be a place for all of us? How, may I ask you, is it supposed to be a place for all of fandom if you plan to completely throw out the younger subset of it? And to say that denying them posting access will somehow vastly improve the quality of the fic at the archive is counterproductive because not only are you generalizing that most badfic come from younger fen, your not actually creating any solution to the fact that any author can and probably has written badfic.

I just think that instead of staying, "You kids get outta my lawn," we should be thinking more along the lines of, "The pool is dangerous for young kids/those with sensitive dispositions, because you can get in over your head, however their is plenty of other things for you to play with, like the swing set. Isn't swinging fun?"

For an example of this, I believe(and correct me if I am wrong because it has been forever since I have been in the hp fandom) that schnoogle only allows up to R and that all of the NC17 fic goes into Dark Arts.