Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20140825123912/@comment-26474238-20140827184704

Zippertrain85 wrote: GarouxBloodline wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote: GarouxBloodline wrote: Dire Skeever wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote: How often do Anons really do productive edits? I mean, most of the time they're either make one word edits, plagerize content, vandalize, or break editing rules (they frequently use first person). Is the Mainspace really benefitting from Anon userage, considering how in addition to all this. It allows people like JIGSAW to constantly vandalize with little effort, or spam bots to come easily and spam ads or whatnot. I agree with everything that Zippertrain85 said, but especially this part. I fully support restricting the Wiki editing to members only. There are many successful Wikis out on the Internet that do this already. That is going against the very collaborative spirit of Wikia itself. Instead of conjecture, you guys can send in a report to Wikia Staff, and they can provide the factual numbers of anon edits on this wiki. You might be surprised at how much more work the anonymous community does in comparison to any registered user. Just look at the Vandalism reports, or the edits reverted, even the deleted pages to see most of these come from anonymous users. The "spirit" of a Wikia depends on which Wiki, in addition, should we keep something going just for "tradition" even if it's doing us no good? You are basing that on absolutely nothing. If you are going to convince anyone of your claims, you are going to need cold-hard sources proving them. As for edits reverted/vandalism reports (in which I am only going to mention in passing that both are over registered users, as well), you should spend some time on Nukapedia during our active peeks - at least you guys do not get hit by dozens of spam bots filling hundreds of articles with porn in a matter of seconds/minutes. Alright, if evidence is what you want, take a look at this. Look through the history, and you'll see it's 99% of the time anons. Check Ghost Anubis Contributions, or Erik the Mad Contributions to see how many Anon edits they need to remove. Here is your evidence.

I don't really know what you mean by that last part What I am saying is that your level of vandalism is nothing compared to many other wikis - the only real problem I see here is a lot of Admins not typically around anymore, which means that spam articles cannot be deleted timely. If you are going to remove the ability to edit from the anonymous community, then you need a real and tangible reason to do so. Not because users have to delete a few bad edits every day.

Generalizing them the way you are doing now, is violating the principle of good faith set in place for us by Wikia itself. Even when spam bots were hitting us, and we were having to spend literally all day cleaning up their mess with the help of VSTF and Staff, we still did not remove their ability to edit, and our wiki is infinitely better because of that decision, regardless of a few bad apples trying to spoil the bunch. I know our wikis are different - but the fact still remains that you guys do not really have it all that bad,