Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-24930713-20150724010053

SunXia wrote: Logged-In users can spam too but it takes much more effort to sign up to something just to troll and spam so it demotivates people...

I don't believe that at all. If a person wants to spam a wiki, they'll do just about whatever it takes to spam a wiki. One of the wikis I'm on is fairly small, so having vandals isn't a constant thing, but it isn't a rare thing either. Our wiki is open to everyone, but a while back we had a repeat vandal who would make a new account, similarly named to the previous account, and mass edit pages with gibberish or vulgar writing in its place. Eventually we managed to do a range block on their ip, and so far I haven't seen them since.

As for the concerns about other people's ips, I think they shouldn't worry about it much. I'll keep it breif, but our wiki had a moment where knowing a logged in user's ip would have shortened a long series of "discussions" considerably. It's only by contacting Wikia that we were able to find out several related users were trying to use majority voting to get their way.

Basically, people are more worried about the negative affects anons can/may have on their wikis. Though IMHO, anons are the lesser evil between them and logged in users. I'd rather just limit anon users' abilities, instead of blocking them completely.