User blog comment:Lynettefan2626/Swarm of flies!/@comment-1888132-20110123140245

The term in the blog title "Swarm of flies" isn't, as I hope, not referring to the anonymous users as it is a really derogatory and unfair branding to be placed on them.

It's only best to just revert/undo the mistakes the anons are doing and add a summary to why this was done so that they know what to do in future.

Wikis should only be protected if there are any incessant vandals who are just trolling or being spammers. It should also send a message that anons are vandals even if it wasn't your intention to do so. It should also be mentioned that this Wiki hardly gets any vandalism from anonymous users, and the only edits that are done by them are usually done in good faith such as the correcting some odd spelling mistakes and generally just helping out.

Even as a contributor to Wikipedia as registered user you can do mistakes done in good faith. Wikipedia is more of a democracy with the amount of rules they have, but I don't see why a democracy should be established here. Imagine this, if an anon was to only edit a page to only find out that all pages are locked to registered users, would they feel intimidated by a set rule already put in place to stop them from editing? Yes, as they will feel that that they have already come across a rule as a non-user, but what is there to say that there are many other rules they will have to obey as a registered user. That would be a general thought of someone looking from outside the window.

DH Wiki or any other wikis for that matter should be a place of free content that anyone can edit. And I think that everyone is safe to assume that we would rather have anonymous users to be bold in editing which provide them with more creative freedom under a unknown identity than to not feel comfortable coming into a sort of democracy that they are not accustomed to.