User blog comment:Unownshipper/A Serious Consideration/@comment-188.28.185.29-20160922170933

Can the solution be worked out using numbers. As an example; for a given period of 1000 edits how many edits are vandalism and how many edits are by serious anonymous users. Is the vandalism problem serious enough to perhaps loose many serious anonymous contributors, who do not want to log in if they are just browsing the site and see a small editing correction they can do.

I have noticed on many sites that 'crossing t's' and 'dotting i's' (small edits) is often done by anonymous contributors browsing the sites. I do this myself often on sites that I visit, adding links and categories, fixing spelling and grammar errors etc. If I had to log in to every site to make a small edit, I just would not bother.

Although I can understand that if contributors are forced to log in with an account they will be more likely to contribute additional serious work and editing.