Liking Wikipedia to a drug addiction, how appripirate (no joke)
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:04:23 -0700, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Fennec Foxen wrote:
nought_0000@yahoo.com wrote:
In my almost-a-year editing Wikipedia, I am yet to hear a convincing reason for allowing anons to edit at all, but saw plenty of cases when I wished they couldn't. Zero.
Anonymous editors may become interested in Wikipedia and become non-anonymous. This occurs with greater frequency it would if the anonymous user was not able to experiment prior to registration. There's one- okay?
That's an important point. I tried things for a couple weeks before I was addicted enough to join.
Agressively insisting that a person be registered on his first day would be like a drug dealer warning a first time client about addiction. :-) That's not good for business.
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