User blog comment:Inferno Pendragon/Category Abuse And IPs/@comment-2247177-20110216210718

Troll-Plz and Master-Troll showcase that determined (if stupid) trolls will still make accounts but I agree that IPs are some of the main offenders when it comes to Category Abuse. The downfall of editting UserRights (which is only able to be done by Bueracrats btw) is that it punishes IPs that are innocent by denying them the chance to edit. At the same time we'll be facing a neverending battle against IPs abusing categories and making hoax pages unless we do something soon - as you said doing this will lose some potential contributors but may be the only option left. Large communities tend to enforce limits on IPs due to them being used a lot by people who do not contribute well (after all we all act more foolish when we hide behind IPs - thinking (wrongly) we can't be traced). IPs are also a ban-evasion tool and thus a beloved tool of trolls, spammers and so on.. the recent edits is flooded with particular IPs that do nothing but add often wrong or unneeded categories to articles. In the long run limiting IPs will help the community, the only problem is - as stated above - whether we really want to go down the road of changing from a truly open community to one that is more secure but (inevitably) a little more restricted.