User blog comment:Alemas2005/The mods rejected the letter. How they replied will make you speechless/@comment-24772962-20160108035903/@comment-26067066-20160109054934

That's my point, I highly doubt we'd be seeing very many annoying 10 year olds joining the wiki even if the letter wasn't a complete failure. I mean, even though most newbies are obnoxious in the beginning, if they stick around long enough they usually learn to adapt to the society of the wiki and become pretty respectable users. Plus the site is dying anyway so the refusal by many older users to give new (13+) users a chance is further decreasing the possibility for "the next generation" of the wiki or whatever.