User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-2022446-20130624195233/@comment-4321828-20130624205533

And the idea of banning all anons does nothing more to bar under-thirteens than the checkbox. What Wikia wants is to have people agree' upon signup that they're over 13; they can't ever verify that the people are telling the truth when they agree'' to being over thirteen, they just want everyone to say they are so that they are in compliance with the law. In the same way, using a checkbox would make the anon ''agree' that he is over thirteen, thereby accomplishing the same thing as one accomplishes when he signs up and agrees that he's above thirteen. Unless Wikia gives us a clear reason for why the checkbox idea or other variations like it do not work, then I will not believe them. All we're getting in response to the idea of the checkbox is "upon viewing other options, banning all anon edits turned out to be the best", with no reasoning to back up why this is true. I'd like Wikia to trust us and tell us why we can't use the checkbox plan before blindly accepting the ban of all anon edits.