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

I refer to Thread:700950 and Forum:Anonymous_contributors, which highlight concerns regarding the quality of discussion happening in commentspace, and I believe that a large portion of this has to do with the sense of false security that the veil of anonymity grants logged out users. Forcing commenters to adopt an identity and restrict their ability to dodge repercussions via dynamic i.p. addresses and proxies may encourage them to behave themselves.

We have recently been granted access to AbuseFilter on this wiki and with it possible to restrict certain actions to specific usergroups (in this case, commenting to logged-out users).

My proposal:
 * The League of Legends Wiki disables anonymous commenting on articles and user blogs

What this means for anonymous users : If you use this wiki to edit wiki articles, nothing has changed. You will be able to go about this normally. However, if you use this wiki to use the comment feature primarily, all I ask is for you register an account to continue doing so.

What this means with respect to comments : In a best case scenario, we see no change in commentspace activity, but a vast improvement in comment etiquette. In a worst case scenario, commentspace activity drops, and comment etiquette is just as bad as before. I personally anticipate the likely scenario is somewhere along the middle.

Complications : To my current knowledge, as Talk pages are on the same namespace as article comments, disabling anonymous commenting will also make them to edit talk pages as well. 