Thread:Stezie95/@comment-5481445-20160320105833/@comment-25308539-20160321090038

Well, I've been around the wiki to see quite a few vandals, and this guy might've been the first one you've seen on this wiki. So I guess we can take this as a learning experience for what to do next time.

Firstly, we must remember that this is a public space, and people are free to do as they please. In fact, I have enough trust in people to act in good that we can keep pages free and unlocked. This is clearly just one incident by one person, and why put restrictions on everybody else just because of one vandal?

In fact, the only time I remember any pages being locked, was even before I joined the wiki (like in mid 2014 about). If I remember right, it was just a particularly brutal vandalism attack and they needed to shut down the pages temporarily. I think that as time goes on, and K-on slowly fades away, vandals will just become rarer.

I'm not sure how many vandals you'll run into while I'm gone, but the best way to deal with them is to check the nature of their vandalism both here and on other wikis:
 * This guy was as obvious as it gets, by fully deleting pages etc etc. If you see this, I would ban them, walk away, and not look back. This guy was easy to pin, since he had done the same to other wikis as well
 * I've also run into people who just do random silly things like change birthdays, or add a whole lot of junk (like there was someone making 1 word blog posts, and made a category for 'female characters'). I checked their contributions on other wikis. The birthday-changer was doing that same thing all over the place, so I asked them to stop, and when they didn't, I banned. The second person was actually doing good work on other wikis, so I asked them to stop and they left this wiki.

Finally, calling him a 'jerk' might be comparatively tame, but ntnd summed it up when he said that it's best not to provoke or antagonise trolls, since if you get annoyed, they still win.

How I personally see it is that trolls/vandals/etc are so petty that I simply don't need to tell them they are - their actions speak strongly enough. The time they spent trolling could easily have been spent doing something nice and worthwhile, like contributing to a place they actually enjoy. But nope, they made the choice to go waste their time on something worthless, and being that pathetic is enough punishment in itself.