Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-17481441-20150723191812

Callofduty4 wrote:

Mario360PS wrote: This is good. No more vandalism on the wiki I work on. This changes everything. I'll start havering users at sml.wikia.com have to log in as of the 25th This is exactly the issue I raised on the blog and earlier on in my forum post. Most disabling of anonymous editing will be kneejerk reactions against "vandalism". Anonymous editing and vandalism are not synonymous.

If the argument that anons will just make accounts is true, then that holds true for any potential "vandals" too. The end result is that nothing changes with respect to "vandalism". And while I have no hard data, anecdotal evidence I have over 3 years in the VSTF is that registered accounts commit the majority of spam and vandalism. Anonymous Editors are harder to ban due to their ability to easily change their IPs, while account vandals can easily tracked and banned across Wikia's network.