User blog comment:AnitaTotallyRocks/Underaged Users/@comment-2170536-20140810091003

Our wiki has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to COPPA. Frankly I don't really care what age our users are; it's not my business to know, nor my job to police. Even if a particular person is being "immature", in my experience it's just as likely that the person is over 13 as it is that they are under. We have had many positive contributors (even trusted admins) that I later have found out that they were underage when they joined, and we have also seen some pretty abhorrent behavior from users in their 30s and 40s. Age really is just a number when it comes to maturity and the ability to positively interact with your fellow wikians.

If someone reveals their age on our wiki (no matter what that age is), we generally just remove/edit their comment and make a generic statement on their message wall about revealing personal details online. Because in the end that's what COPPA is (or at least should be) all about: keeping people's online identities safe. It doesn't matter how old you are; publicly revealing any personal data about yourself online is generally a bad idea, as it's just one more way for someone to hack your accounts or otherwise impersonate you. That's why we actively discourage everyone, regardless of their age, from revealing that or any other personal information.

I suppose it's possible that we might report someone under 13 if that person were a serious troublemaker, but honestly if we hadn't already blocked them for their actions, it seems to me to be pretty darned petty on our part to use that as an excuse. If Wikia wishes to patrol our wiki and block them, that is their business; it would be them on the other end of a lawsuit, not us, and they are well within their rights to do so. But as they have stated in their policy, they are neither requiring nor even encouraging any of their users to report potential violators, so we choose not to.