Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-1279279-20150810222949

As I have said above, without a breakdown of figures (constructive/neutral/newbie/passers-through/disruptive/actively hostile behaviour, and signed in versus IPs 'and any other factors that need to be taken into consideration') this will merely be a discussion based on the particular situations contributors have encountered - and we have no idea of what 'the vast majority of Wikians' think about the matter.

It might be equally valid to say that 'with most wikis that can be described as active' (at whatever level) the amount of negative activity is not a problem/is seen as something that occurs at an tolerable but low level.

There will be some wikis that attract more negative activity than others (for a variety of reasons).

There should be a range of options - from IPs allowed (even with some restrictions, or a filtering system if such could be devised), and with various levels of control and blocking (and even 'temporary emergency halt to IPs), to 'registered users only' (but what about the IPs who spot a correction or wish to make a positive contribution?).