Logins suck

From DoWire Wiki

The perhaps-offensive slogan logins suck caught on among some anonymous trolls to express their dissatisfaction with poor practices like:

• visibility of IP address only to administrators, preventing actual legal accountability by any offended or threatened party; this put power in the hands of the central sysop power structure and not in the hands of the users, "justifying" central action
• complex login and registration processes that require credentials easily faked or lied about, so are very easily penetrated especially in large public wikis, rendering users vulnerable to all forms of online fraud especially if they think all users are actually verified and trusted in some way
• the requirement to use real names which often leads to real-SOUNDING names, amplifying the above
• encouraging users to build up reputations and contacts as if virtual community existed, then using the fear of losing that as leverage to coerce submission to sysop power structure requirements, including many arbitrary ones.

In response many anonymous trolls simply refuse to ever log in and consider it actually unethical to do so, especially given to do so encourages all the above.

However some misguided, authoritarian, or frequently-spammed wikis do in fact require logins, and are too influential or strategic to ignore. A wiki best practice that emerged to deal with this was the use of troll names that obviously carry no repute and signal clearly that the name, as a name, is not to be trusted simply because it seems to also be a person.