Forum:Restoring anonymous editing

Yesterday, anonymous editing was disabled on wikis thought to target a young audience, in order to comply with the update to COPPA, which went live yesterday and forbids collecting of IP addresses, among other things, from those under 13 without parental consent. (For full details, see the blog post here) Now, for a wiki like the FiM Wiki, I totally get that, since the what it covers is obviously intended for the younger crowd. However, this wiki's anonymous editing is disabled, but I don't think it should have been, as unlike the FiM Wiki, a lot of what this wiki covers is definitely not for kids (or at least, not skewed towards them). I mean, I really don't think Friendship is Betrayal or Cupcakes, for example, are all that child friendly. Besides, with responsible parents, while it's likely that they'd be ok with frequenting the FiM Wiki and keeping up with the show, I doubt they'd let their kids get into the fanbase, reducing the need to look up stuff about it; I dunno about you, but Equestria Daily seems to skew more towards the adult crowd, even if most of the content on it is acceptable for all ages. Therefore, I think this wiki should have anonymous editing re-enabled, as it caters more to the older brony fanbase, rather than the children (in addition to the bronies) like the FiM Wiki.-- 07:58, July 3, 2013 (UTC)