Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27022259-20151208210819

I was talking to Shuddervolt today and he made a pretty good yet controversial idea that should be discussed not only with the staff of the Wikia but rather with the whole community.

So here is his idea:

If you have been on chat the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed the massive influx of new accounts randomly joining, never saying a word, leaving, never to come back. Not to mention that a lot of people begin to question the authenticity of the new users as well, with accusations claiming they could be fake accounts/sockpuppets, which could be jeopardizing the privacy of some users and overall skylarking within chat.

We really cannot make a failsafe way of preventing these types of things from happening. The only way to make certain of a fake user is through the viewing of their IP address, which is impossible (to my knowledge) unless they are an unregistered user.

Now here is we need your input.

Shuddervolt and I believe it is best to put the chat on sort of a lock down. What this means is that the chat will only be open to contributing users, preferably 50 edits, and has been a member for at least a week. All brand new users and uncontributers will be kindly asked to leave, and with no synergy, a kick/ban.

Should this be enforced, it would only be temporary, only until the rate of new users goes down to a suitable number.

Who here approves of this idea? 