User blog comment:Mr Morshu/No Comments?/@comment-366087-20131212001441

To clarify about Anons and COPPA… COPPA is designed to *protect* minor-aged users from internet predators. Because Anon users are identified by IP addresses, this means anyone with sufficient knowledge and determination can readily gain enough information about an Anon to '''ring their real world doorbell", or, y'knau, kidnap'm or stuff. I've actually had the former happen several years back. Someone interested in my more Mature and Adult proclivities from IRC channels tracked me down. Fortunately it was with Flowers-in-Hand instead of something which could have led to the above latter option.

Back to the Children–won't someone think of the children!–so being "Anon" is NOT actually Anonymous nor a guarantee of anonymity which the term might seem to suggest. In fact, *registering* and having a Username is.

Thus Wikis which are identified as being trafficked by Minor-aged demographics have been flagged for COPPA compliance and blockage of Anon users. I dunno iffen Bloons, being a fairly youth-oriented web flash game, and Bloons Conception have been flagged for COPPA, but in case it *should* be and it was overlooked, it can be requested by Community-discussed consensus.