Forum:Upcoming Policy Changes

Hello,

We wanted to let you know that in order to comply with federal law, Wikia is reviewing the way it handles communities that may be considered directed to people 12 years of age or younger.

This wiki has been flagged as falling into that category, and I wanted to let you know about it. While I am sure this wiki has many fans of all ages, it can also be especially appealing to the younger demographic for purposes of the newly revised Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

The only change you will notice is that we will be turning anonymous editing and commenting off for wikis in this category. Your users will still be able to edit and participate. They just need to make sure that they are logged in first. We hope the impact on your community will be minimal.

We realize this might be an inconvenience, but this is a step Wikia has to take in order to make sure we are in compliance with federal law. You can find out more about COPPA here: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/12/coppa.shtm.

The changes to the law will be going into effect July 1st, 2013 although you may see some changes before then. Be sure to keep an eye on Community Central where e will be announcing these updates to the wider Wikia Community on Monday on the staff blog. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks, and Happy Editing! --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 00:30, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

oh god this again. it seems a bit misguided-- 00:32, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

So basically if we start posting ecchi images this wiki will no longer be in the babies category and unregistered users can edit again?

RIP anons. 00:56, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

Will this always be in affect? 00:58, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

Somehow I doubt One Piece has many fans that are under 12 but at least we might have less vandalism since most vandals are annons. 01:18, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

If wikia done more research instead of rushing ahead to update it's news. It'd know most wiki's target audience such as are self's, are over 12 years old. 01:54, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

Come to think about this a bit I really don't get it. It has always been wikias policý to only allow users that are 13+ no? So wtf is disabling anonediting gonna do to stop 12 year olds from looking at this site. I mean wikias sign up isn't exactly hard to circumvent either, so if they rly want to edit they will. This seems like the least thought out policy change ever. 09:40, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

I think they're just going by moronic "logic" that there's a chance any IP is a person under 12. I doubt the law is THAT bad. SeaTerror (talk) 09:44, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

Agreed with panda, the COPPA, for what I understand is about creating accounts so I don't understand how disabling anon editing will help. Furthermore how they know the users' age?

Ok, two things. First, very few underaged children watch/read One Piece. And if they do, it's their parents' fault. So even fewer visit this wiki or any wiki in general. And if they do visit and edit our wiki while underaged, by turning off the edits of anons you do nothing because if a ten year old kid joins a wiki, he/ she will definitely make an account because IPs can't write blogs and IPs can't join the chat. And when an underaged child makes an account, he/she suffers the consequences, as soon as an admin or a mod or any other user notices that they are underaged. Second, OP is definitely not suitable for childer below thirteen years old. That's because half of the scenes in One Piece include blood, inappropriate words etc. So, I firmly believe that by turning of the IP edits you will achieve nothing. 09:53, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

I think there is no issue in an under-age children reading one piece, and most of all we don't care. The problem is Wikia underaged users. But I agree with you, I don't understand how this solution will help.

Another, basically useless, law that will not achieve anything that the politicians and lawmakers who wrote it promised the "people" will accomplish... Same old, same old. MasterDeva (talk) 13:55, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

Recently I've realized how an American law can affects so many people worldwide over internet.

This is preposterous!!!

Unfortunately, you haven't seen the half of it. This isn't anything new, it has been happening for quite a while already. For example, ICANN remains to this day under U.S. control and by extension the top-level domain and addressing system (DNS) of the Internet. Doesn't it remind you of something? MasterDeva (talk) 14:51, June 21, 2013 (UTC)

Unless Wikia gets more power than the US Government, arguing about this here is completely useless. These are the rules now, so deal with it. 16:29, June 21, 2013 (UTC)