Forum:Prevent unregistered users from participating in blogs and forums

Hi! Well, the headline of this blog post is very clear, but I wish to simply re-state my point for how strong I support this: Prevent all unregistered users from participating in blogs and non-official forums.

I would like to state that it may somewhat be impossible to do so - it requires a few changes to the structure of the Wiki, and I believe it requires some authorization from the founder of the Wiki organization (or whatever it is).

However, I would like to state my reasons.

First of all, I find that unregistered users always happen to be very disruptive blogs or forums that don't have a purpose on the Wiki that directly contributes to it (such as discuss changes to the Wiki). I have no problem with the forums, but a large one with the users who believe they can spam freely and try and persist with flame wars and unnecessary cyber-violence.

Secondly, I find it slightly unbearable that they are unregistered users by themselves. It would seem generic - but what I mean is that unregistered users always believe that they can sneak past our registered users because we can't track them - username or identification tag (IP), either way.

Also, some people might respond by saying it would hamper our very own logo of "The Wiki That Everyone Can Edit" or something like that. Well, I believe it doesn't. This is not part of the Wiki - it is a freely-regulated community part of the Wiki that happens to mix together simply because the same users are allowed access to discuss and create these.

However, there are a few problems. Unless certain measures (such as IP banning, if possible) are implemented, there is a simple way to bypass this measure - create "dummy" accounts and run rampant on the Wiki. Therefore, a small but important request: Introduce IP banning.

I thank you for your time. May I please ask that first discuss and gain a knowledge of others' ideas, then vote.

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- As per nominator and state reasons. 12:31, July 10, 2011 (UTC)