Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20140825123912/@comment-4544033-20140826223854

The wiki isn't just for registered users though. We should follow the good faith protocol and assume they are here to help until they (as individuals) prove otherwise.

I know some editors and anons are trouble, I have been editing for years and I have seen dozens of unique ways a editor can hurt a wiki. But one of those ways is to assume the worst and lock out people rights. If the community does its job, vandalism will be kept to a minimal without locking the doors to future editors. We always say we need to editors to help out, we will not get any by making it that you MUST sign up to do things. If they do not want to that is there right, we have no reason to tell them what they can and cannot do because people in the past have abused that right. Will it be easy having to deal with vandals? No, it hasn't, and it won't be. But our job is to maintain and protect the wiki so others can come and enjoy what we have built and perhaps build on it themselves. It is not our job to turn this into a social club that locks out the rift raft because some of them might create an article without our permission.