[WikiEN-l] Blocking anon page creation was an experiment, wasn't it?

[Matt Brown]

On 8/26/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, volunteers want to do what they want to do. If you stop them doing
> what they want to do, that doesn't mean they'll do what they don't
> want to do.

I think it's /possible/ he meant that if users have to spend less time
deleting articles that shouldn't have been created, they could spend
time editing rather than deleting.

I'd disagree with that, too; the kind of people who like going through
recent changes and doing janitorial work won't start writing; they'll
start doing other kinds of janitorial work.  However, such work could
be more useful, granted.

-Matt