Board Thread:Site Policy/@comment-4750363-20130703214523/@comment-5269370-20130703220512

Reading pointed out to me today that usually vandalism of articles here occurs once every 2 weeks. He also pointed out that in the 48 hours that we have allowed Anonymous editing, that there has been 4 reported vandalisms of articles. I encountered it firsthand myself today, when some user had intellectually wrote "TACOS" at the end of a story. Brilliant.

Now, I know that SOME contributers have been good and fixed articles with HONEST intentions, but I have seen admins have to edit Anon's talk pages to warn them of this several times, and have to edit other pages to coincide with the new Anon rule. (Example, on the Pasta and Image of the Month Nomination Page, they had to edit it to "No Anonymous Nominations)

Now, I know that opening this Wikia up to anon contributers is a good way of promoting the site, but is it really necessary? Most people join up to create stories and edit anyway, and Anon's mostly only read stories here, and allowing them to edit, in my opinion, is only going to cause further hastle and invite trouble here.

Maybe if we allowed Anon's to only edit talk pages on articles, then I perhaps be leaning towards a Nuetral or Oppose, but with regards to all unlocked articles? A definite no no from me.