Rich Holton wrote:
I'm not sure it's a good idea. But it's
not a suggestion for an
indefinite change, but for a temporary pause in new articles. Something
quite different.
Disabling article creation for anonymous users was supposed to be "just
an experiment" too and it's still in place over a year later despite no
analysis ever being done. I can understand people being concerned about
this experiment winding up the same way.