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Unfortunately this is very obvious when you do this and is, in itself, an indicator, especially when you put the reason for the edit was removing age indicator.
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Personally, I try to leave the "reason for edit" blank, and I try to private message people about what I edited.
I'm sure that if someone is truly dedicated, they could go through every single one of someone's posts and find out information about them. But announcing you're a minor is just asking to be a target. Minors shouldn't be releasing any information about themselves without their parents' consent. Adults can choose what to release for themselves.
We just want people to exercise basic caution and protect individuals as best we can. One of the firm rules here is no posting of your age if you're under 18 and I'm asking that people not post any age indicators either. We will - as discretely as possible - edit out all ages and age indicators from posts.