I think the Admins should ban the IP address of all the scammers reported and tried guilty. That would discourage scammers quite a bit. Or do they already do this and I don't know about it?
In response to someone towards the beginning. I'm 13. Just because a Gaian is 13 doesn't mean they are complete wimps, just not wanting to get banned. The very thought is ridiculous. I mean, there will always be those that are blind to the fact that things don't make sense and do them anyway. If the allowed age was restricted to 15, wouldn't people start saying that 15-year-olds aren't mature enough to know what's a scammer and what isn't? Why do we think maturity has anything to do with this at all?
There's probably 16-year-olds who get hacked, 25-year-olds, 40-year-olds, etc-year-olds who are caught in the scams too. It's not right to categorize this to a single age group! (Or two, because that seems to be going over 14-year-olds as well.)
Mirenithil
...leads me to believe Gaia really needs to raise the minimum age allowed to register on the site - and ENFORCE IT. Absolutely nobody under age, say, 15...
Fuuchouin Kazuki
...13 year olds can be easily scared into giving their passwords away. To the more mature Gaians this all seems obvious, but to a 13 year old they just don't want to be banned.
Another thing. 13-year-olds know how to lie too. Not all of us are 100% innocent. There's no real way to 'ENFORCE IT' as said above.