Thread:MinecraftRogue/@comment-5414390-20121001122041/@comment-25546749-20121006172323

I don't think you understand what you are asking us to do. First, we do not have the ability to instantaneously lock all pages -- that tool is reserved for the "higher admins", otherwise known as Wikia Staff and VSTF (Volunteer Spam Task Force), who actually run the entire company, rather than us who only run this one wiki. Second, as I have said before, it is against wiki ethics to completely cut off anonymous edits other than for the prevention of mass spam (and when I say mass, I mean mass, such as a spambot editing every five seconds). Lastly, you are assuming that all of us have no desire to help the wiki. If that was true, then we would've just left the wiki in the state it was in before we came in and cleaned up. All of us could have just left this place to the whims of spammers and vandals. But we didn't. We cared so much about this community and about the wiki that we sent in not one, not two, but FIVE requests to adopt this place and get it back on its feet. We cared so much about trying to help everyone in the community and actually asked VSTF to handle some vandalism even before we could do anything about it. Last, everything, and I mean everything is preserved in articles history. We can go back and completely remove the vandalism and restore lost content. And we do. Before you start bashing us because we decided to keep the foundation of a wiki, understand all of the above. Understand that we have helped in every way open to us and care more about this community than what you seem to think.