Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1445357-20130315142943/@comment-4959312-20130319135253

From a more numbers-oriented perspective, I am curious if disabling anon-comments has been tried before, and if so, to what effect? How much push-back or significant reduction in overall wiki activity was there?

If we agree that disabling anonymous comments isn't against the wiki's overall philosophy(which doesn't seem to be a huge issue since accounts are free, and easy to set-up), the question boils down to numbers: how many worthwhile but anonymous users will we lose, and is that number worth pushing away of to get rid of the less-determined trolls?