User blog comment:Wetstream/Anonymous Editing/@comment-5488762-20130705185053

COPPA has been involved on multiple wikis, and should be taken seriously. When I came to the wiki I was still 12, not knowing about COPPA because I live in Canada, and the rule may not apply there.

I'm sure that most of the anons are underage, and if they do know of COPPA, or have been banned for violating COPPA before would probably not want to make an account, probably scared they might be banned again. And shouting your age in the middle of wikia is never a good idea. But, as you know, Warriors is a children's fiction novel and I'm sure that most users would be underaged because

a) They started reading Warriors at a young age and have taken interest in wrighting fanfiction;

b) (does not apply with "most") Do not live in the U.S., therefore they don't know about COPPA. Example; since I'm Canadian I didn't know of COPPA until this January.

But then, there's the fact that parents do not want their children making accounts on the internet because, seriously, you never know who's on the other end, and if you share personal information with them, thinking it was your friend, anything could happen. Any anon could also be a vandal, and on another wiki I am on, they usually reverse edits made by anons because there is no cite for the information, therefore it'll be raised as an assumption and be removed.

~extremely long comment that took me almost 15 minutes to think up ends here~