Thread:Pinkolol16/@comment-182.191.176.44-20150311110930/@comment-25653892-20150311145327

Wikia policy states that all wikias (all the subdomains of the site, in essence) must comply with COPPA, a U.S. internet law. Part of this is ensuring that nobody who holds an account is under the age of 13.

We don't just block these kids randomly. We didn't, for instance, block Syber because he was being crazy and kinda disturbing on the message walls; that doesn't constitute a valid block reason. Nor was he vandalising pages from what I can tell—at least not intentionally, if he was. The fact is that Syber is underage, and to avoid getting in trouble with the law, we had to block his account for it.

Sometimes we have to block underage peoples' accounts even if we were getting to be good friends with them. Those people still have to be blocked in order to comply with the law, regardless of how we feel about their presence on this wikia.

Note that at the tail-end of the second paragraph, I said that "we had to block his account". This is true. Much as I hate to reveal this fact, I feel obliged to tell you that Syber can still visit, edit, and post to this wikia as an anonymous user. He will have fewer privileges than when he had an account, sure, but he shouldn't have made one in the first place.

We don't always like having to abide by COPPA, but we have to enforce it nevertheless. There really isn't anything we can do to unblock Syber without breaking the law ourselves.