Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4715590-20131031211355/@comment-24486926-20131113031337

WhyAmIReadingThis wrote: Scorch933 wrote: Why is an eleven year old  even on the wikI? Hahahahaha, oh Scorch. A lot of kids do come!

Five days per week or so, an underage user is banned and notified to Staff (at least I do). The youngest I have found was eight years old.

And it hasn't been only one eight year old. There has been at least three since I was an Administrator.

I think it is more because their parents don't watch their internet activities as closely as they should.

But yeah, leaving that aside, I think that the point the guy is trying to make is that a mature kid (no matter its age) could be around here, for all we know. And well, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the truth. I have known several young people who are rather mature. Not watching as closely as they could, or they just don't care.

On the Spinpasta Wiki, there was a ten year old who was caught and banned. Here, at a wiki with ten times the people and ten times the size, there will be a number of children who are underage, and yes, their maturity level can easily turn us the fool.

I've known young children with excellent grammar and high maturity levels, and I've known 15 year olds who couldn't get a pasta on this wiki if their lives depended upon it (either that or they skipped elementary school.) and act like a stereotypical two year old. There's no real way to know it unless they admit it, and if they're smart, they won't.

So yes, tl;dr: That's exactly the point I was trying to make.