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I agree with everyone who's said that an LW for teenagers isn't needed. A tag "of special interest to teenagers" might be a good idea. It's possible that there should be some way of awarding the tag by acclamation rather than the tag being put on by the poster so that there's a good chance that the post will actually be of interest to teenagers.
I don't know if it will eventually be a good thing to have a LW teenage hangout so that they can get away from their parents, but if so, the teenagers can set it up for themselves.
I wonder why the founders of LessWrong didn't just let the people with less rationality-training than themselves set LessWrong up for themselves. Asking for help is a compliment, you know, we look up to the more-rational population than can be found on LessWrong. Either that or there are too many lazy teenagers.
If you run a community you don't want that community to be split.
Writing three discussion posts about pro-teenager topics is a much better first step than thinking about setting up a new forum.
I wasn't suggesting that teenagers should invent LessWrong for themselves, just that if they want a no-adults spinoff, they'd probably want to do it for themselves.
This sounds like "hey, I'm starting up a special-interest listserv. Suggestions?", and I encourage any special-interest listservs, thanks to the long tail.
A listserv is a different medium. It needs less users to reach critical mass.
In the OP, there's a lot of talk about joining a list- it's not clear if it's a list of issues or a list of people. It looked to me like a list of people organized as a listserv, but that's not the only option that fits with the OP as written. So, if that wasn't the intention, that's my formal suggestion: make a listserv first, and see what grows out of that.