Age Gate for video files

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  drreaper · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 6:21 pm

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  Hello,
  I am running a website that gets some ESRB rated videos. I don’t see a way to put up a simple age gate. YouTube.com doesn’t have this functionality. Does anyone know a video website that does offer them or a way to add an age gate to a post on wordpress.com?

  Thanks in advance
  Chris

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm

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  We co not have either an “age-gate” or a warning we can post. However, we can create a post with a warning on it and make it a sticky post that always displays on the front page of the blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 7:02 pm

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  “co” was meant to be “do” above – sorry. If the blog contains legal adult content you can contact Staff and have them mark the blog as “Mature”. Blogs with legal adult content are not removed, so please do not report these as spam or expect us to suspend them. They are flagged as Mature so that they become less visible to general audiences throughout WordPress.com by being excluded from Top Blogs, Recent Posts and Global Tag Listings.

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  drreaper · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 7:17 pm

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  If I sub to the video post upgrade does it offer an age-gate? I wish we had plug ins.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 7:20 pm

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  I don’t know. You could post a youtube video you are concerned about and then provide the URL for it into this forum thread, and I will report back whether or not I experience the youtube age-gate notice when I click the video or not. Would you like to do that?

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  drreaper · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 7:32 pm

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  Youtube doesn’t have an age gate either. I am looking around at different video websites to see if any of them offer them. You would think something so common would be available already.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 7:40 pm

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  If I sub to the video post upgrade does it offer an age-gate?

  Do you mean this upgrade? I can’t find anything about an afe-gate there.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/

  VideoPress is a powerful solution for video publishers who upload their own media files. It is not necessary to purchase a VideoPress upgrade to embed videos on your WordPress.com blog from external websites. http://support.wordpress.com/videos/

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  drreaper · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 2:17 am

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  I am still looking for an age gate.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 3:05 am

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  Youtube does indeed offer an age gate.

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  drreaper · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 3:30 am

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  Care to elaborate raincoaster I can’t find it.

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  airodyssey · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 3:52 am

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  @drreaper: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=128029

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  drreaper · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 4:38 am

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  Yeah but how come I can’t just flag a video for over 18? It seems stupid I have to wait for youtube.com

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  drreaper · Member · Mar 19, 2011 at 4:40 am

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  I found a plug in for age gate. of course we can’t use plug ins here on wordpress.com. I guess I need to find another host.