Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24675554-20150501224223/@comment-4964341-20150503002648

FortressOfNight wrote: ShadowOfOblivion7119 wrote: COPPA enforcment: This is just...blegh. We shouldn't NEED to, or FEEL the need to. If they are capable of being a member of our society, then it is not our right to deny them the privledge of joining our society. I am firmly against enforcing it. Also if we did, we would be negating the entire POINT of COPPA. The point of COPPA is to keep children safe on the internet... by denying them access to sites?

On negating the point of COPPA, I've always found it funny that, in the Wikia ToU, you're not supposed to solicit personal information from anyone <18, which would mean that by reporting someone violating COPPA, you're also breaching the ToU, which should result in a gblock and accounts being disabled for both of you. I don't even. The idea is it's safer for them not to potentially be taken advantage of online if they aren't allowed there.

"As for what Ajr said about 'soliciting personal information'– remember that all the underage kids are from the MBs, where it is allowed to post one's age. We know of users younger than thirteen based on evidence from there; we are not breaking Wikia's TOU or the whole purpose behind COPPA."