Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1705775-20171127072036

okay, this is something that needs to be addressed now and made final - I'm taking a risk even mentioning this but it seems I have little option.

users will be reminded that as of now we will have a Zero Tolerance to any and all "baiting".

Baiting is trying to argue, interact or "counter-troll" malicious users - the ONLY course of action a regular user should do is revert bad faith edits, inform admins or Wikia Staff (via VSTF Wiki) and keep the wiki up and running.

ANY attempts to interact (such as posting on their walls to stop, or asking them why they are doing it or even just making "funny" remarks every time you revert an edit) is Baiting and will earn you a 1 week ban for each offence.. that means if you repeat offend expect an extra week added to the ban.

this kind of stuff encourages them as most malicious users are attention-seekers, we have RIB for a reason.

Revert (users can revert most edits vandals make, if they can not they can get Staff or Admins to do so for them - never make snide comments when reverting nor engage in edit-wars, if the vandal is persistant get Staff and Admins involved as they can protect pages and block the offender, also without a user to "play" with all a vandal can do is bore themselves to death.. (see below on why a mass vandalism is nothing to worry about, ever) - you will never lose anything to a troll claiming to "crash the wiki" with a billion edits.. so don't add to those edits and make it a game (you'll lose) )

Ignore (everyone (users and admins) just keep going about your business, undo what you can, report the rest - never bother to even react, no matter how shocking they try and be.. pornography, gore-pic and worse can all be wiped out with a click of a button, any page you see vandalised "beyond repair" can simply be deleted and remade instantly by an admin in perfect health again.. the trolls literally can do NOTHING permanent on the wiki, they are a passing plague with zero long-term influence unless you let them get under your skin.. which is their whole goal anyway)

Block (for admins - block the user and check both Block Users and User Creation Logs regularly, this can stop vandals in their tracks when admins block new accounts they make (betrayed by Blocked User checklist) )

that's all. 