Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20140825123912/@comment-24590102-20140826074529

SuperSajuuk wrote: [...] [...] I recommend we do this.
 * Permanently disable an anon's right to create new articles: they must be logged in to do so.

Nothing's preventing people from signing up. This will reduce constructive alterations but it will also reduce destructive alterations even more.

Moreover, there has been considerable resistance to RPGs ever since their popularisation by Garry Gygax. There's always someone trying to belittle people who play RPGs or sabotage the social networks that support RPG players. Nothing much has changed in past 40-40 years bar the facilitation of computer technology and nothing will change because snobbish and stupid people will always feel threatened by activities which encourage people to think for themselves. So, the vandals are not going away; not without a little push.

I think that requiring login to alter articles will do more to reduce vandalism than to discourage authentic and genuine contribution.