User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-4519283-20130701210418/@comment-1216259-20130702004040

This keeps popping up. It's not really relevant, but I'd like to note that there's more than one way to be anonymous. Sure, my IP would be recorded, but unless people checked the recent edits, they're not going to know it was me, just that it was "An Anonymous Contributor." This is useful if, for instance, I'm having a problem with a troll I'm trying to avoid. I can't really do this with an account, it's considered sockuppetry.

It's true that the IP address tells people about where I live, but 99.999 times out of 100, that's not very useful information. Also, it can be bypassed by using a proxy server.