Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-25531876-20150110002247/@comment-4531340-20150110235835

Anonymous editing as a whole was disabled on this wiki (and others determined to be targeted towards kids, or that might attract kids in large amounts) back on July 1st, 2013, when the updated COPPA went into effect (and that determines what information you're legally not allowed to collect from children under 13 without their parents' permission, if I'm not mistaken), with one of the new things added being IP addresses. Now, MediaWiki uses IP addresses to track anonymous edits, so in order to keep anonymous editing without possible running afoul of the updated law, Wikia would've had to re-engineer the system, and it would've been way more effort than it was worth.

In fact, it's because of COPPA that Wikia is not allowed to let children under 13 have an account (since verifying whether a child under 13 got their parents' permission to register an account would probably be next to impossible over the Internet in a setting such as this - it would be way too much trouble, I can imagine) - note that my wording, as the children are not breaking the law by registering an account; rather, it would be Wikia who would run afoul of the law if they knew of that person being under 13 and didn't act on it (disabling the account globally).

So yep, I don't think we'll ever see anonymous editing on this wiki ever again.