Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1445357-20130315142943/@comment-5386529-20130319050720

JMan Z wrote: I oppose this for a number of reasons:

A) Aren't we a wiki? We should promote info-sharing not only in the articles, but in the comment section too. I think disabling annoymouse commenting is a horrible start and it just shows unfriendliness to the anonymous users.

B) I don't know, but personally I think it is an exaggeration as the amount of “trolls” I see is minimal. Even Riot says that the “Bad-Attitude Players” only make up a tiny amount of the community, so anyone intelligent and sane enough to come to the wiki should be better than that.

A) Many articles have already disabled edition for anonymous users because of vandalism so it's already somehow restricted

B) It's all work of moderators. They just remove vandalism/toxic comments as soon as they appear

IMHO any annotations are ignored by anons. Why should anonymous care about them while there's no consequences? Just look at places like 4chan (especialy section /b/) where people usually just show their worst sides because nothing will happen to them.

Ok maybe 4chan is not the best example because things there you see, can't be taken seriously.

Restrictions on commenting will ease job for admins/moderators, becasue already they have tons of work to do with improper comments