So what's so wrong with restricting edits to registered members again?

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Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

So mod more people to handle the extra load. Besides, you'd only have to do it once for each new member. They prove themselves to the establishment with a single offer of new content, and then are welcomed into the fold and can edit without any red tape just like the rest of us.

And by new content I don't mean a simple edit to spelling or grammar. I mean better photos, a new page, correctly ID'ing incorrectly ID'ed guns, updating an incomplete page, etc.

I'm not a mod, but I wouldn't want to bothered with that. Even if the number of mods is doubled or tripled. But that's me.