The one bonus I found so far is the increased dialog between editors, in an effort to improve the new articles. This can only be beneficial. I'd personally recommend extending this to a week long trial. Currently, an IP is either banned or unbanned. What if we had a middle ground for problem IPs, which didn't allow them to create new articles, only edit existing ones. It wouldn't be a cure-all, but it might be interesting concept to play with. Nick