Forum:Non-User contibuters

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Hangon - Hello, good day to you all. TALK - Hello there, I like pie.-04:41, November 21, 2010 (UTC) This is SERIOUS, the stupid non-user editors are always messing things up, no offence to them, but all the pages marked for deletion are by the stupid ones, I think we have to change it so that they can't edit somehow, they can get kicked off if they're users, but theese guys keep on coming! IT'S IRRETATING THE STUPID PEOPLE!

Soxra - This party's getting crazy! Let's rock! It's showtime! - 04:47, November 21, 2010 (UTC) I have no problem with non-user contributors in general, but they should be prevented from creating new pages. If they want to edit existing, that's not usually a problem (simple revert and note to an admin to ban them or whatnot, in the case that it's serious enough)... but definitely there's not enough need for new articles here that we need anons creating them. Just my $0.02.

LapisScarab - You accept darkness, yet choose to live in the light. So why is it that you loathe us who teeter on the edge of nothing? We who were turned away by both light and dark - never given a choice? TALK - That may be... however, what other choice might we have had? I am 100% against blocking unregistered contributors from editing (if that's even possible). They are not intrinsically bad editors, we just notice the vandals more becuase they are by definition attention-whores. Preventing them from creating new pages (again, if that's even possible), is a somewhat better idea, since anons do occasionally create new pages that we don't need due to inexperience. However, both vandalism and accidentally creating useless pages are things registered users have done in the past as well. Basically my point is that it's unfair to punish an entire group because a few of them have done things that any user can do anyway.

Lapidothtill - What sound does an Arctic Tern make, Col? TALK - BACKSTREET BOYS? The way I see it is that most of the unregistered users try to help if/when they can, but don't want to become involved in all that goes on with everything else on here. They read the pages we write, and if there are small errors/mistakes they usually do a good job to fix them. The reason many of us have a bias against the annons is there are those few who think it's funny to change articles or create stupid ones. And it's really not that hard to revert vandal edits or delete the stupid pages they make. So, I said all that to say this, let's not make mountains out of mole-hills.

Soxra - This party's getting crazy! Let's rock! It's showtime! - 07:07, November 21, 2010 (UTC) Actually, though reverting edits is a three-click-miracle, it is a bit of a pain to actually delete their pages. The person/people who find it report it to the "delete this" page and an admin has to find it and delete it. Not saying that we're not used to doing it, just saying that it's kind of unnecessary to go through the hassle of doing so. I'm actually in favor of allowing anons to continue basic editing on existing pages. They catch a mistake here or there (as I did when I was an anon), usually typos or whatnot, which is helpful to the average user flipping through our wiki. @ Lapis, yes it is possible through MediaWiki's configuration. Not sure if Wikia has blocked that, but hopefully that won't be an issue shortly...