I’m so surprised that the developer forum about a platform designed for 10 year olds that you browse to kill time doesn’t have posts of as high of a quality as you’d expect.
And this sucked because people who would otherwise greatly benefit from the forum couldn’t get in.
The staff member’s answer hints at something far more reasonable, which is an exclusive space within the DevForum for more experienced developers.
That is what the OP is suggesting when he/she says
Verify a user’s real name / age to automatically be promoted to a certain rank (deter 13- users)