Tim wrote:
Sunir Shah has suggested a method for making it blindingly obvious that a user is about to edit anonymously. Specifically, if the user is logged out, a username/password box is shown on the edit page. I made a mockup of this for demostration purposes, at:
http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~tstarling/EditPage_with_login.html
Neat! But it does make the very important copyright agreement text harder to see. Perhaps removing the save button and forcing anons to preview first would help. The preview screen would have a save button but the login prompt would be removed.
That would have a triple positive benefit: 1) It reminds people with accounts to log-in 2) It gently nudges anons to create an account 3) It would cut down on experiment-type vandalism, slow down anon vandals, and teach anons about the preview feature.
-- mav
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