Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24675554-20150501224223/@comment-4724333-20150502172545

'''The following is from Meiko, who asked me to paste this here. He also wishes that I add that, during his use of the Bourgeoisie account, he never used proxies, tor, or any other such thing to get around any blocks.'''

In regard to wikia:c:lmbw:Thread:215310, I'd like to put down a few thoughts.

First of all, neither of these topics are in a local wiki's reign to determine anything about. This wiki's local policies are to affect local matters. There are no grounds to determine global matters on this local wiki. If you want to get involved with global matters, contact Wikia staff or put in a job application at Wikia.

As for global blocks, this is a matter that pertains exclusively between Wikia staff and the indended blockee. Global block reasons are not public, and therefore this wiki's administration is not responsible for investigating them or enforcing them. If a globally blocked user is evading a global block, that also does not belong in this wiki's jurisdiction. It's still a matter that's exclusively between the intended blockee and Wikia staff. In order to enforce a global block, you need access to tools such as MultiLookup and LookupUser. These tools are restricted to Wikia staff for a reason. The only legitimate way to "prove" that a user is the same as a globally blocked user is to find a match with the user's IP addresses, email addresses, or other personal information that this wiki's local administration does not have the ability or a justifiable reason to be able to access.

As for COPPA, I will point out that it is a felony in most (if not all) US states and a federal offense in various locales to solicit personal information from a minor. Soliciting this information is a more serious offense than a minor having an account on Wikia. Asking a user's age for any reason and finding out they are legally considered minors and/or protected by COPPA is an offense in its own, and does the opposite of COPPA's intention: to protect childrens' information. If a user private messages you and says they're a minor under the age specified by COPPA, if you block them for being "underage", you are publicly revealing that they are a minor and thus commiting an offense yourself. This is why this type of matter is handled by Wikia staff and should be ignored on a local level. There is no reason to try to enforce this on a local level, and doing so will likely get you into more trouble than you're trying to prevent.

Please tell me what the point of all this is, anyways? If a user does not cause abuse or disruption that interferes with this wiki's local policies, what reason is there to block them or prevent them from being here? It's Wikia staff's responsibility to investigate these things, and if Wikia staff can't find sufficient evidence to perform a global block, then leave it be and move on.