User blog comment:BertH/Anonymous editing and your community/@comment-5814264-20150723031526

This is a terrible idea. I started editing as an anonymous user, because I found what I was doing for editing was minimal, such as fixing typos. I only became a user because I wanted to upload a picture in a community that only allowed logged in users to upload files. I don't think any community should disable Anonymous editing because being anonymous allows users ease themselves into the editing process at their own pace. I've noticed anonymous users don't usually make big edits, and when they do it's often vandalism. Forcing people to be logged in to use things such as chat makes sense, if everyone can easily see a name assigned to a person instead of just a bunch of numbers, then they can't learn who the person is, without learning something meaningless to them. Yes, limiting the experience of Wikia encourages people to create accounts, but what I fear is that by disabling anonymous users from editing altogether, they won't want to create an account because they don't know how to edit.