Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-30016713-20160808164844/@comment-5032910-20160809084303

In my opinion, we should be the teachers to the children about of how serious COPPA is and why it exists.

I believe the main cause of underaged users signing-up to join the wiki is because once they see the COPPA policy on the rules page, they instead misunderstand that COPPA is a regular rule like all other rules, but in reality, it was a rule enforced to protect the children from online stalkers, and to prevent them from giving out something too revealing. This creates users that are under the age of 13 to then sign-up without having knowledge of its seriousness and enforcement.

I think this, because our wiki skyrockets at up to 100k visitors every month, and we're ranked Top 25 and below for popularity and wiki traffic. Out of all 100k users, one out of all the ordinary could be a stalker or a paedophile. One out of many want to join the wiki, but that one doesn't know why COPPA is a serious rule.

Teaching users who want to sign-up to have awareness of their own safety on the internet might slightly lower our user count, but I believe it should be done for the good. Users who choose to ignore this can ignore it if they want to, but we shouldn't be responsible if somebody tracks their IP location and does them in, or gets lured by child stalkers in the future.

That's just my opinion on how we can make the COPPA rule clear to everyone who comes to try and sign-up to the wiki.