Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-1142365-20150723193747

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.

Registered users can just as easily change their IP and create a new account. Account creation does not make this process any more difficult, nor does it make it any easier to deal with. The whole focus on "vandalism" is exactly my issue with this entire idea of allowing communities to disable anonymous editing. 95% of the rationale will be "because it stops/reduces vandalism" which is common misinformation. We've already had one person already explicitly say "no more vandalism".

If anonymous vandalism is an issue, then consider finding more admins to help out. AbuseFilter and VSTF also exist to help combat vandalism. "Vandalism" is never a reason to reduce vital accessibility to editing a wiki.