Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9139758-20140426091444/@comment-5116706-20140428174616

I'll throw in additional clarity, as I've been going through all this stuff with Thin for the past few days anyway.

Thin's right on his statements on anons. Most, if not all, come to the wiki either to a) troll or b) ask questions that have been answered hundreds of times in easy to access places. This, combined with the fact that many other pages are locked from anons and that it takes little to no effort at all to create a page, leads user like Thin and Aethel to take this stance. Having no email to login really is highly unlikely, as today's culture is almost entirely dependent upon technology and social media, which requires email.

By restricting the anons from editing page (yet still commenting), they will either stay in their current restricted state or they will create an account (which, again, is an effortless task).

Making an account shows initiative, and if you're not even willing to do something as simple as clicking create an account, then what does that say about you?

As for adding FAQs to redirect questions to is an entirely beneficial movement, as it shows which questions are frequently asks, their answers and removes the admins' constant need to blurt out the same answer again. And again. And again.