User blog:Dronian/My 1 billionth post on Edit Wars 2

It's not the billionth, but it's pretty close.

Anyway, the vandals who attacked the Wiki June 18th are coming back in July. Since Colgate banned some of the members for life, they would need a proxy to bypass the ban. Darkus said that the Wikia staff would shut down their IPs/Accounts, and if that didn't work, Wikia would contact the servers and have their ips banned from the wiki.

Proxies randomly generate IPs, meaning that there would be limitless IPs for the vandals to choose from. So you can't really stop them. I said that, but then I said "Unless...Nah." I was actually thinking about the police arresting the vandals, but that would be over the top, especially for vandalizing this wiki. So, here's my plan, called the Flawless Plan:

Step 1: Defcon alerts. DEFCON is a code the United States Military uses when crises occur. We can use Wikipedia's Defcon alerts, starting with and ending.

Defcon 5 or Fade out means that all's well. There's no worries.

Defcon 4 or Double Take means that a vandal did edit some pages, but nothing that was too bad.

Defcon 3 or Round House means that either 1 vandal damaged a good amount of pages plus renaming them or 2-3 vandals are on there. It was used during 9/11 and the Yom Kippur War.

Defcon 2 or Fast Pace means that either these things happened:

1: A vandal did in a LOT of pages and renamed them.

2: 4-6 vandals are editing pages

For comparison with the actual Defcon, it was used during the Cuba Missile Crisis.

Defcon 1 or Cocked Pistol is the worst. It means that:

1: A Edit War is happening, whether it is /b/ on 4chan or the Twigs180 brigade.

2: 1 man using many IPs screwed up the wiki so bad it would take weeks to repair.

Step 2: (coming soon)

Oh, and if they abandoned attacking in July: Keep the Defcon codes. They'll be handy.