Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20140825123912/@comment-26474238-20140827180341

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, 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.