These lame little Lolitas (most of them are girls; the boys often watch the chatbox action for cerebral [or lack thereof] contemporaries before they make their move - if they ask at all) MUST know your gender and age before putting down an acronym.
AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!! Remember the syndrome of The Terrible Twos? You know: when little kids incessantly ask "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" Well, meet The Fearful Flirty Fourteens!
Acrophobia is plagued by this singular phenomenon. "A/S?" "a/s/l?" "AGE/SEX EVERYONE??????"
Oh, we love that last one, don't we? Don't ask me why, but clearly out of about twenty yahoos who come into a room and this tumbles out of their uncontrollable mouths, about sixteen of them will be 14 yrs old. It's uncanny, as though an internal alarm clock goes off inside them and it's their genetic imperative to annoy everybody.
It is irrelevant that they have selected a Keep it Clean room with no discernable name to suggest it to be a teen hangout. That's because they're too stupid to either find the appropriate room, or - in most cases - too inept to use an IRC application. They instead insist on hunting down others to "meat" with in game rooms, oblivious to the overloaded nature of Acrophobia's servers due to ballbusters like them (and I'm rather dubious of those who come in asking for stats and claim they're not out to pick anyone up. More like they've been caught and are trying to exonerate themselves with a good dose of denial).
Now don't get me wrong. I like kids. Just not dumb, spoiled ones. It's just so unfortunate that for every good one to welcome for a nice hearty game of Acrophobia, there are about 200 of these nogoodniks making everyone miserable.
Kids: Asking a/s/l doesn't make us look old for not replying. It makes YOU look like a big stupid baby for asking. In case you didn't notice, this is a word game, and there are no physical or geographical limitations to play. If you can read, spell, and Keep it Clean, then you can be 6 or 60 for all anyone cares. Coming to Acrophobia and knowing what its for means YOU'VE grown up!