Board Thread:Site Policy/@comment-4750363-20130703214523/@comment-23780813-20130704200229

Okay we have a serious problem with you guys not reading me and LOLSKELETONS posts. As I said earlier, Anonymous users can only add or remove up to 150 bytes from a page. This is their maximum limit, after they surpass it the AbuseFilter will automatically stop their edit from being published. We can also impose a ratelimit on anonymous user, this means that if they are editing too fast the AbuseFilter will shut them down (meaning it will give us time to deal with them and make sure they weren't editing maliciously). Furthermore VCROC, Rollback, and Sysops are given tools to deal with users not just anons. These tools will be brought live to each user in these groups shortly. If additional spam control is needed there are several more extensions that we may request.

Now to address "Why can't they just sign up for an account". It is in the MediaWiki charter as well as Wikias, stating that a wiki should be open for everyone to contribute. Now i'll give you this tad bit of info, when you log into Wikia tracking cookies are downloaded with the web page. Now these cookies are harmless and just store your password and username and pick up ad data as usual. But some people do not want cookies on there computer storing info like this (such as active duty service members) as it allows Wikia to track their general location and store it. Which if Wikia became compromised would be a huge problem for them. We might have contributors in countries where Wikia is blocked and they are using proxies to get to us, which also puts them at risk if they make an account. So you cannot say there is no good reason to not sign up for an account. Maybe if some of you would keep up with the times you would know this.