User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-4839682-20130624191729/@comment-4839682-20130624195741

It just seems... well, lazy to me. If I were a concerned parent, I might be upset at how easy it is for my child to make an account here. A check box for reading the TOU is pretty standard, so I was pretty shocked that Wikia doesn't use one.

I think this laziness is the same reason they don't like the dialogue box confirming age. They'd have to actually go into the core and change/add some stuff, rather than just using a switch that already exists.