If you had $1,000 for the Go community

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My previous thoughts:

A separate ranking pool for children?

The BGA were (are?) looking for a solution to the issue of a secure online source for children to play Go. The main issue (having not read all the previous posts, sorry) is that of safeguarding rather than playing strength. As a parent I am nervous of sites which encourage chat and have the facility to send private messages. I realise that a Go server is maybe a less likely part of the web for ne’er-do-wells to hang out and much of the concern might be unfounded but we (parents) are constantly…