User blog comment:Epicnail/Anonymous Wikia Contributors/@comment-4328703-20141117213153

Like Jason said, this was discussed a while ago just before I left the wiki a year ago, but some things have changed since then.

Approximately 60-70% of all the contributors on this wiki are AWC's, meaning any removal of AWC's would HEAVILY decrease wiki activity which is a bad thing. I think the entire concept of AWCs is good considering it gives people the chance to check this place out before they decide to make an account, and like Coupe said, removing the AWC feature is against what wikia believes in. The core beliefs of Wikia is to build wikis that anyone can edit: That includes those who are unfortunate enough to not have an account. Also Coupe covered the part where Wikia is very hesitant on removing this feature and that's outside of centrral wiki staff's ability. What we ARE capable of doing and have done is preventing AWCs from editing articles which has stopped most vandalizm on this wiki for a long time, and I believe that's sufficient enough.

If AWCs spamming is really that big of a problem though, than I would assume that the only probable solution is that more admins are made to deal with it, but at the moment I don't see that happening (for the better).