Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-25405817-20150928170243/@comment-4820209-20150930014548

Minomelo wrote: I can't even begin to state how strongly I am opposed to this. Your strongest argument is that Maki spent like 30 seconds undoing one edit.

Stopping anons editing also stops them from making helpful edits. A large amount of editing is done by random people who don't use wikis very often but are researching something and feel the article can be improved in small ways that don't take very long to implement. Not letting them do so will turn a lot of potential new users away and puts up a very unwelcoming feel around the wiki in general.

As you stated multiple times in your original message, there was no harm done, other than a mild annoyance. In the end, we're not "letting acts of vandalism happen". If someone really wanted to vandalise a page, they could make a throwaway account and do it anyway. It's not any easier or more efficient to block a registered user over an anon, we're blocking the IP address either way.

Basically, there's a lot of potential edits and community members that could be turned away by locking this up, but all we're gaining is saving a couple of minutes of our lives undoing a vandalism or improving an amateur edit.

Minomelo (talk) 01:40, September 30, 2015 (UTC)

Zing~ ^