Thread:Pinkolol16/@comment-34296765-20150209011251/@comment-25653892-20150227011615

OBJECTION!

If a person actually cared about contributing to the wiki, they would make an account. I think all of the at least somewhat competent contributors to this place have made accounts (or plan to at some indeterminate future time that never seems to arrive *COUGH COUGH FRENCH GUY*). Having an actual, unchanging name (and a set of pages linked to it) facilitates conversation and interaction, and that is the entire basis of a community-managed wiki.

…but even though I just said that, I also feel compelled to disagree with the disable. Under these circumstances (this being a wiki about a reasonably famous YouTube machinimist, and the most popular of his kind), blocking contribs could scare away people who just want to make a few edits here and there. And for those who wouldn't find it so daunting, well… let's just say there would be a proliferation of accounts for newbs and spammers who don't actually want to make good contributions. Of course, there are plenty of those already, but blocking anonymity would force many of these people to don recognizable identities, and that would mean more accounts to block. Reversion of vandalism or spam (VS) is relatively easy, and if an IP does this a very small number of times, there's not a lot of need to block it; blocking an apparent VSer who has an account, on the other hand, is much more of a case-by-case basis. While the presence of a VSer's actual account on an IP-blocked wiki implies that the VSer in question cares about the VS enough to create the account for no other reason than to VS, there could be a number of other factors, e.g. outright noobishness, or the failure to realize that the wiki is a serious encyclopedia. Block appeals, and with them, the amount of work the admins would need to do, would skyrocket.

I agree with Pink's first statement, but disagree with the second, and yet I find her stance on the issue to be the most logical. One of those right-conclusion-for-the-wrong-reasons kind of things. I tried thinking through the implications and logistics of the disable a bit, and I think it would be more beneficial for everyone if the duller or mistaken people could remain anonymous.

Also, there are alternatives to the harsh and sudden disable option. Why not add a few guidelines to the Project:Policy, then link to the page from the homepage, the top-nav, and a few highlighted threads?

huh? Oh right.

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