Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-961279-20130625033951/@comment-5431054-20130625055811

There's an old saying that states ''On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. Whilst we are talking about underage users, it can be tweaked to fit into that style(On the internet, nobody knows you are under 13''). When you are talking to someone on the internet, you have no idea who they are. If they state that they are under 13, then they have admitted it and you should report it to Wikia Staff at Special:Contact. If someone states that and you notice it, whether you are an admin or not, you need to report it because its against Wikia's rules. This is going to be a very bad analogy but anyway, Think of the under 13 as a person who is wanted by the police for whatever reason. If you see this fugitive, your first instinct is to report it to the authorities, right? If you hold back that information and assist the fugitive, you become liable yourself as you have helped that person evade the authorities. Whilst Wikia may not do that (I have no idea what they do to someone who knows someone is underage and doesn't report it), it's what would happen in a real life seting (police hunting a criminal that is). To sum that all up, you should always report an underage user if they freely admit to you that they are under 13. You should never ask someone their age, as that is not allowed. If someone tells you are 13, alert Wikia staff and the wiki's admins (unless you are the admin in which you can block the user yourself). You should always provide evidence that they said they were underage (screenshot) so as to not wrongly accuse someone.