Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26272757-20150807055929/@comment-26272757-20150812114612

Thank you :) I didn't agree with disabling anonymous contributors in the first place. Everyone starts off as an anonymous contributor before making an account. If you disable anonymous editing, you will stop anons from doing useful edits and automatically stop new contributors from making accounts. I've seen this myself. Since one of my favorite Wiki's uses the block, the influx of new editors has stagnated. A Wiki with a block will get empty and will have less active contributors, and it was already hard enough without the block to keep a Wiki going. Only if it's easy to edit a page or leave a comment, a Wiki will grow. A block cuts off everything you've been working on at once. I think Wikia should't block people, unless they've really did something wrong. But now there is a block, and now I think Wikia won't revert it, I think there should be a third option, as mentioned above. This is the only way to revert vandalism a bit, but still have an active Wiki with many contributors. I think a bit of vandalism in comments sections is trivial to having an accessible Wiki. And if anonymous contributors can leave comments, they will grow attached to a Wiki and are more likely to make an account to go edit pages, as they'll have many more advantages as a registered user.