Re: wiki.erights.org and anonymous edits
Kevin Reid <[email protected]>
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On Jan 12, 2009, at 6:52, Toby Murray wrote: > Surely we're losing far more than we're gaining by continuing to allow > anonymous edits. Here are two arguments for preserving anonymous editing. I'm not saying they outweigh the greater spam blocking, but they should be considered. * No anonymous editing will discourage that rare unknown-profound-and- lazy contributor who *is* sufficiently valuable to make up for their comparative rarity. * With anonymous editing, they just edit and we can block their address and prohibit account creation from it. Without anonymous editing, they create accounts (yes, there are spambots that do that) and Wikipedia hides their IP address (from me, at least), so we can't block anything but their throwaway account (which persists forever in the wiki database). -- Kevin Reid <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>