Timeline for Who are the anonymous users?
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| Mar 28, 2019 at 9:02 | comment | added | Andrew T. | @Cyn you might be interested in reading the FAQ about suggested edits, particularly on What about abuse or bad edits? and Special note for anonymous edits (yes, they can get automatically IP banned for suggesting inappropriate edits and getting rejected) | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 21:26 | comment | added | Cyn | 4) There's no accountability. If a user does anything (including proposing edits) that is malicious or spammy, they get suspended or banned, and anything else they've done can get scrutinized. But if an anon user can do stuff, there's no way to ban them or track it. I'd like to think that everyone working in a review queue is carefully checking every word, but that's not the case. Someone might get an edit through that is 5 good changes with a spam link buried in the middle. Why is there not a, say, 10 point rep requirement for proposing edits? | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 21:21 | comment | added | Cyn | 1) Curiosity; 2) Because source matters when it's a link or a product involved (this link is to Wikipedia, which isn't going to be spam, but others may be to other sites); 3) Because I don't think random passerbys should be editing posts. It takes a couple minutes to set up an account. | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 21:13 | history | answered | JamesMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |