I think that, ideally, some distinction should be drawn between underage
characters as perpetrators and underage characters as victims. For
example, would "The Bad Seed" have had much impact at all if Rhoda
Penmark had been 18?

On the other hand, at least the guidelines are clear. The "Abductor" site
recently embarked on a housecleaning of sorts and announced that:

Certain terms and or stories will not be tolerated: ******,
********, ****, ******, kindigarden, mommy & daddy.

I posted a message pointing out the absurdity of this statement, and my
message was deleted. Then I sent in an e-mail that was ignored. I can
only conclude that that site is being run, not by the merely careless, but
by the truly stupid. (BTW, apparently **** stands for "teen," because
there was a complaint later of having to read through "ump****" stories
to separate the allowable from the intolerable. I imagine that, in future,
"18" will be okay, but "eighteen" will be posted as "eigh****.")

Agree with Jinn or not, at least he's not a boob.