Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20150810171627/@comment-17760674-20150810194838

Dragonfree97 wrote: SolarMist wrote: I don't see what's so important about registering? By default, even users who aren't signed in can contribute to wikias. Registration allows you to hide your IP from the masses, get proper credit for your contributions, possibly get promoted to do some deep-end stuff with the wikias, contribute to pages or wikias that are locked from the masses, post blogs, set up a profile, and have a message wall. That's it, isn't it? The core of wikias is that they can be edited by anyone by default, and the lack of a proper account does not hinder that, does it? Did I miss something o.o

Also I'm laughing my ass off at the dude that's basically like "don't bother trying to defend against the hackers 'cause of this and that and this and that" xD

Some wikis have disabled anon editing. I think there was a staff blog post about it a few weeks ago Yeah, but that's not disabled by default, is it? I'm wondering about this: DaNASCAT wrote:

First and foremost, there are a lot of suggestions included on this thread about how to mitigate this particular exploit. They are very good solid ones. However, each one would require a good amount of engineering time and each have a fallback. For instance, 2FA is totally something that would strengthen security. But it would also cause more log in issues and maybe detract some people from joining Wikia. The more steps you put in the registration process, the more likely it is for someone to feel it's not worth it (and joining Wikia is worth it!) (emphasis not mine!)