Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-4998373-20120408172509/@comment-1820221-20120408232321

The majority of our users who have been found to be underage mentioned they did not even read the Terms of Use and had no idea about the policy.

As you may or may not know, our Wiki is based on the ever so lovable children's show "Thomas the Tank Engine". Our community, both on Wikia and off it, has recently drawn a "younger crowd" of users ranging from ages seven to tweleve. The youngest I ever met was seven years old and this is based on personal experience.

While Wikia Policy requires a user to be thirteen years of age, we have had users as young as nine years old come on to our Wiki upload spam images of themselves, spam the Chat, and spam our content. There was a period of time when we had around a dozen users come on and do this within a week. It was found the only solution was to ask users their age, if they were not comfortable with revealing their age, they were simply asked if they were over the age of 13.

If you would like me to stop, I will gladly do so. But I'd like to ask you come pay us a visit one day.

-Jamesis5