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;4 October 2020
:After discovering that the forum thread with the arguments for and against restricting anonymous editing had been vandalized while other forum threads were left alone, the moderation team accepts that even discussing the topic causes issues on the wiki, and decides to leave anonymous editing disabled indefinitely.
;Early December 2020
:All The Tropes becomes the target of a massive spam flood, with spammers registering accounts at a rate of one every minute or so at its worst, and spam pages being created every ten to fifteen minutes. As a result the staff activate the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Moderation Moderation] extension, forcing all contributions by unapproved users to be reviewed by staff before they can actually be added to the wiki. Slowly, all existing contributors of quality material are added to the group of "approved" users.
;Late January 2021
:The spam flood finally abates, but the staff leaves the Moderation extension active.
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