User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-5643552-20190304154824/@comment-10502460-20190323051042

I don't know if Fandom would even allow us to raise the minimum age. Given that in most of the EU the minimum age for full internet citizenship is 16 compared to COPPA's 13, they might allow us to raise it to that, but probably not 18.

It would be more trouble than it's worth in any case. By 13, almost everyone is smart enough to conceal their age if they need to, which is probably why the government set the age at 13 in the first place. The current age limit is easy to enforce because kids under 13 have a habit of revealing their real age within their first couple edits (seriously, they have this weird compulsion to mention how old they are in the first article comment or talk page message they leave).

Also, raising it to 16 would have prevented some of our most active users, like Icydice and SoDaftPotato, from being allowed here last year since they were both 15 in 2018.