Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1445357-20130315142943/@comment-1445357-20130316002122

The5lacker wrote: I personally can't see any real reason for this. The internet is anonymous. All it'll do is force people to make up names rather than IP addresses to hide behind. That's the point. Without IP addresses to hide behind, we create two types of pressure on commenters:
 * 1) "Do I want to act like a douche and have my online screenname associated with this sort of behaviour?"
 * 2) "Do I want to act like a douche now that I can't dodge bans via open proxies and dynamic ip addresses?"

I've already explored the best/worst case scenarios in the first post.

Dah' Blob wrote: I was wondering, if the restriction goes through, will there be a mass comment wipe to reset the wikia's chatter?

While I would love for that to happen just to do some wide-scale maintenance on the wiki, that's a different issue which needs its own discussion thread.