User blog comment:Forestpaw13/I Highly Advise Reading This/@comment-24459516-20130402204009

I was honestly expecting an angrier blog than this, Forkalork. Glad it was mellow :o

Aight, guys, here's my two cents:

Trolls happen, guys. As you could see with the vandal last night (the contributer, not NinjaTroll/Zaffie), they're not always willing just to disappear because you snap at them, if anything, like Fork said, that just makes them want to stay and annoy more. If you can't handle having a story vandalized, (which, by the way, is always revertable, nothing that a vandal ever does is permanent) then write somewhere else where they can't be vandalized. Watt and fanfiction.net are perfect examples of places where you can show your work and not have to worry about other's editing it.

This is the other thing that I just saw that completely and utterly ANNOYED me to no end, and it wasn't even happening to me.

Guys, when a troll or a vandal comes along, do not spam the admins with it. Looking at Forest's talk page, NINE PEOPLE left a message about NinjaTroll/Zaffie. Nine people. Do you know how annoying that is? Let ONE PERSON report them and then LET IT BE. Having to read NINE MESSAGES about the SAME PERSON irritated me so much, and the messages weren't even to me. I even saw people leaving messages to Red, and she's not even an admin, couldn't ban them, could only simply revert any edits the vandals did, and that had already been done by the irate owners of the stories. And then people started coming on IRC and asking about the troll and I wanted to wring someone's neck. Leave one message. One. Comprende?

Vandals are a common part of Wiki community, and you all need to learn to deal with them properly and efficiently if there is no staff around to deal with the problem. Because what happened with the last two was absolute Chaos, and yes I just capitalized that. It was Chaos and hopefully we can better prepare ourselves for the next vandal that comes along - because, let's face it, it's going to be soon. It always is.