User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-1387259-20130701204003/@comment-4811793-20130701212432

Specifically, this is because of COPPA, a federal law that triggers on wikis directed to children so that is the threshold issue. Trolling and/or vandalism was not the impetus for this change, and there are no current plans to make this Wikia-wide.