User blog comment:Equillibrium/Proposition to Ban Anonymous Users/@comment-3076045-20130809134431

For reasons that are already mentioned. There are quite a lot of legitimate editors who have no accounts - and have no intention of signing up. They see a page that needs a minor edit, and they edit it, and move on to something else that interests them. And that's fine.

As for the number of editors - we have over a thousand registered editors, it is true, but last month, only 435 of them edited a content page (i.e. a page excluding the forums). Of those, only 135 edited more than 5 times on any page.

In conclusion - basically, I think it is a bad idea because if folks don't feel like they have the ability to be included in the community (whether they have an account or not), then they will move on to a different site, or forum, etc. And that's not what we're really about. Everyone is welcome here.