If you didn't want to name and shame a participant, I totally get that.
With them being a minor and wanting to keep things private, I don't think you had to out their name publicly (even if that is what I suggested earlier, I totally get wanting to respect their privacy and not wanting to target them in particular).
But I do think it would have been appreciated to have an announcement saying,
"Hey! We had a participant reach out and say that they re-read the rules and identified themselves as a minor. Just another quick note that this is an 18+ exchange, so please reach out to the mods if you don't meet this criteria.
For the sake of the minor's privacy, we won't release their username but their prompts have been deleted and have been removed from the discord.
If by chance a collection reviewer notices that you sent a gift to them or any subsequent submission from this point forward, you will be contacted in DM if you feel comfortable with sending the gift still, but you won't be penalized in game for whatever tags were claimed for it."
Then it brings awareness (without naming and shaming) while also drawing attention that the issue was resolved.
It doesn't need to be made into a huge deal, but a lot of us craft our fandom spaces for 18+/not wanting to interact with minors, especially for NSFW-heavy fandoms, so not knowing that it it was breached, even inadvertently, warrants some sort of heads-up, IMO.
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With them being a minor and wanting to keep things private, I don't think you had to out their name publicly (even if that is what I suggested earlier, I totally get wanting to respect their privacy and not wanting to target them in particular).
But I do think it would have been appreciated to have an announcement saying,
"Hey! We had a participant reach out and say that they re-read the rules and identified themselves as a minor. Just another quick note that this is an 18+ exchange, so please reach out to the mods if you don't meet this criteria.
For the sake of the minor's privacy, we won't release their username but their prompts have been deleted and have been removed from the discord.
If by chance a collection reviewer notices that you sent a gift to them or any subsequent submission from this point forward, you will be contacted in DM if you feel comfortable with sending the gift still, but you won't be penalized in game for whatever tags were claimed for it."
Then it brings awareness (without naming and shaming) while also drawing attention that the issue was resolved.
It doesn't need to be made into a huge deal, but a lot of us craft our fandom spaces for 18+/not wanting to interact with minors, especially for NSFW-heavy fandoms, so not knowing that it it was breached, even inadvertently, warrants some sort of heads-up, IMO.