Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-9893745-20151221030533/@comment-1853435-20151223052440

"I mean, people are less likely to be bullies/post defamatory content when they're under a username, right?"

Not really, A username is just as anonymous as an IP address. A person can create as many of them as they want.

"Also, does this prevent them from just [somehow] creating new IP addresses?"

Most people don't have a static IP addresses, getting a new one is as simple as restarting your modem.

Turning off anonymous editing can help in some ways, but it has it's drawbacks too. With an anonymous editor you can usually tell if it's the same person by doing an IP lookup. But when someone is logged in we can't see their IP address, so we just have to guess if it's the same troll or someone new.

The issue is that Wikia doesn't take troll control seriously. Until they give us tools that actually make a difference it's always going to be a problem we have to deal with.