Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-40174391-20191209232757/@comment-9605025-20191210002403

PigLoverGoComics wrote: Please disable IP's being revealed for anonymous users. Why? The IPs are available to anyone who looks for them anyways. MediaWiki uses them as a simple replacement for usernames. If it didn't you would have to do one of the following:
 * 1) Have some system to generate a username
 * 2) It would have to be unattached from any account
 * 3) You would need to prevent users from claiming it after it has been used for an anon
 * 4) You would need to keep track of which IP is associated with it
 * 5) Don't log anon activity
 * 6) This would leave gaps in edit histories
 * 7) This could be abused by trolls to commit mass vandalism completely unhindered
 * 8) Don't allow anons to participate on the wiki