User blog comment:Mira Laime/Where to start as a Newbie/@comment-168424-20171219182842

Other reasons to make an account:
 * Admins are more likely to warn you or give you the benefit of the doubt if they can put a message on someone's talk page or message wall and know who's reading it. Since IPs can be shared, messaging an anon is unreliable.
 * You can save more personal stuff like drafts, experiments, and fanfic in subpages of your user account page, like: Special:MyPage/draft.
 * In cases where you want a custom signature, you can put it in a subpage, like: Special:MyPage/sig.
 * Once you have a custom sig in a reliable location, you can set it up in your preferences with something like:
 * After you have that setup you can put your signature with just 3 tildes.