Project talk:Vandalism warning system

To be honest, I think this idea is just as ridiculous as the idea of DEFCON codes. It's useless. It will harm more than it will help. Every guide or help page on vandalism out there says that vandals should be given as least attention as possible. The more you react to them, the more they'll vandalize. Just revert their edits, block them, and that's it; we really don't need to keep a log of them, post about them on Twitter and all those useless things.

MediaWiki and Wikia have tools to get rid of vandalism, and making too much of a big deal about it is not going to help, only to harm. Even in extreme cases where there are 5 spam bots vandalizing the wiki and no admin online to help, the VSTF will notice it in their list of possible spam and deal with it. We don't need a warning system for it.

Vandalism isn't a fight or a battle; it isn't something that we or they can win. We just need to revert the vandalism and block the vandals and it ends there. No vandalism will ever hurt this wiki enough for it to have a non-negligible impact. In fact, the only harmful kind of vandalism is the vandalism that goes noticed because we cannot just revert it instantly, and a warning system is completely useless against that kind of vandalism anyway, precisely because we only notice it long after it happened.

If there's something we need to focus on, it is the quality of the wiki and its content, not making complex but useless processes to "fight" against vandals. Mark Otaris (talk) 03:36, December 28, 2012 (UTC)