Thread:RegisteredContributor/@comment-2045915-20120629020840/@comment-1834964-20120705162956

You're wrong. I was around when Baneblade was admin and contributed anonymously a couple of times. I registered just before he quit. I don't remember a vandalism crisis. Some pages were vandalised, but nothing in my knowledge that would require dozens of pages (out of a then few hundred) to be locked.

Locking a page is absolutely a last resort on wikis since it goes against the idea of wiki in the first place. It is done temporarily for a few HOURS or days at most, and usually in only 2 cases:

1. Until vandals are banned, or

2. Until a dispute between well-meaning editors is resolved, in order to stop a revert war.

Locking a page for weeks, months, or years is effectively banning everybody else. NO page should be locked for over a few days, period. There's other ways of dealing with bad editors that affect only them.

You are right about one thing though. I've had enough with this, it's not worth the trouble.