Howard Long

Certainly "off the street", for example someone approaching me at the lounge entrance and asking me to guest them in, whatever the age, I don't guest in, and I have been asked.

Firstly I don't want to bear any responsibility for their behaviour, and secondly I don't want to encourage the activity which, in the case of adults, amounts to begging.

Being approached through an offer you've made yourself through FT is a different matter, you have a reference point and can check through the individual's online behaviour as to whether you'd want to guest them.

An interesting facet that this thread does raise, though, is if I became aware that the individual was a minor at any time I would not be at all keen on guesting them: although unlikely, it does open you up to so many potential problems. In that case, regretfully I would decline.