Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-17481441-20150723181759

DarthKnah wrote: This is a questionable decision at best. I understand Wikia wants more registered users, but I don't think this will be effective. It'll maybe gain 10 more barely active users. How do you decide to create an account if you can't edit without one? I don't like to create an account for any site unless I know I'll use it. For years I edited as an anon, but now that I edit more regularly I have an account. If wikias were anon-locked, I don't think I would ever have joined.

I know I will never turn on this feature at my home wiki, Doctor Who Answers. 99% of our questions come from anons, and our most prolific editor is an IP as well.

Wikia had better not force us to implement this. If they do, many wikis will crumble and die. Wikia is supposed to provide support for the software and light administration, but otherwise sit back and make money off their ads. It's not their business to cajole communities into their own agenda.

Hopefully, that's not what Wikia is up to. After all of the outrage that was made from this one feature being added, mostly the outrage came from the theory Wikia would eventually annihilate anonymous editing, I don't think Wikia is going to make a forced implementation on all wikis.