Thread:Sannse/@comment-24317446-20131228211223/@comment-366087-20131228224104

By not enabling IP-users, or Anons, to enter chats, it protects Wikia from the possibility of underage Anons entering an interactive real-time social arena, many of which may be unsuitable for that demographic. Which would be a potential COPPA nightmare of legalities.

Whereas by registering, a user acknowledges they are at least 13. Granted that does not stop those who will lie about their ages, but it shifts the onus from Wikia to the Lying User, who will be blocked as soon as they are found out.