Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-7211845-20140101182246/@comment-24108837-20140101220959

I do not think the wikia rule that only people over 13 can register was meant to be loop holed by promoting the use of anonymous users. I rather believe that a rule like that would be meant to prevent young children (who really can not add anything worthwhile to a wiki) from trolling, as they can do now.

There is no purely legal need to prevent children from taking part. There is (as far as I know) no way of private chat or another way they could be exposed to untraceable contacts via this site. So the admins of wikia must have some concept of the site in which young children do not play an active part.

And how anonymous are anons really? They are identified by their ip. With an ip address you can identify the location of somebody and his/her family, you can target it with viruses etc. I think we should not publish childrens' ip addresses on a structural basis. Registered users are identified by a site specific username. They are known by an e-mail address, but only to the site admin, who on a large site like this usually does not have time to harass you.

Would wikia be held liable if an angry parent found out and started suing wikia for disclosing personal information?