User blog comment:BertH/Anonymous editing and your community/@comment-4568327-20150723024820

My biggest concern over this new feature is that it's very subject to abuse.

As a Wikimedia editor myself, and one who encourages the openness of a wiki, this isn't something I will enable on the wikis I'm admin on, since it seems really restrictive and locks out users that can't create an account (either because they don't want to, use a public connection and don't want their passwords siphoned, or don't have a working email address. Yes there are still people like those), driving away contributors that would've been helpful. The only good I can see coming out of this is that communities no longer have to pester VSTF to request site protection in the case of extreme vandalism or abuse, although this is exceedingly rare.