Board Thread:Administrators Discussion/@comment-4811793-20130620225343/@comment-5454372-20130623164137

Jessie1010 wrote: Thank you Undead.exe! I'm taking off that feature ASAP! But I don't know if that is enough. But you have opened up a huge possibility! Is there anyway wikia can take off the easy access to anon IP addresses?

Unfortunately, I do not yet know of a way of doing that -- I've never seen that as a feature which admins can toggle, but I've seen other people asking for Wikia to implement such a feature back on Community Central.

If they needed ideas, what I would suggest is to treat any and all anon edits like they're one single user. Basically, if you try to post while you're not logged in, it's like you're logged in as a communal guest account which cannot be told apart from the other guests, so all the edit histories for guests are collected under one single account.

There is a drawback to this suggestion, however, and you guys have already been discussing it: weighing vandalism against good anons. I'm only putting forward this suggestion because I'm guessing it's the quickest and easiest to implement. Hiding the actual IP address of each identifiable anon may or may not be technically more difficult to implement (and there's also the problem that users can still be identified by other means, such as writing styles, interests, etc -- though that argument can be made for people with accounts as well).

Basically...I can't think of a perfect solution, but if you have enough people pitching an idea to Wikia, you may just be able to get them to program that in so you've got something of a workaround.