Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9091559-20170728055313/@comment-28739144-20170728185020

Talking about vandalism,here's someone who vandalized the Kai page a while ago.He isn't blocked yet tho.

Something we all know is that vandals have different ways of vandalizing,and not only vandals are the only thing we need to keep in mind of,but also in the forums,where due to low amount of sysop supervision

About Main Page Vandalism,there are a few types:

1.Fake categories - Adding pages to categories they don't belong (Example:If someone adds the Baby Cat page to anti-zombie units,it can be counted as vandalism).

2.False information - The most varied type of vandalism,users who do this usually add false pros & Cons,change English description (They may modify japanese version description,but this isn't common),or fake stats.In case of stages,they add enemies that don't even appear on the stage or (Horribly) bad strategies.

3.Advertising - The least common type of vandalism,where users advertise their wikis on main pages,even if these wikis have nothing to do with the content on here,has only happened around 1 or 2 times (I've only heard of BluesCluesFan's case).However,if not blocked,this users are likely to promote their wiki everywhere (Comments,forums,etc,so banning them is the best option).I mean,promoting a wiki in your profile page or in your favorite wikis (A column that is located in a user's profile) is OK,but promoting it everywhere you go...oh come on.

4.Content Deletion - Users that delete almost everything in a page.

And about bad contents in the forums (This isn't counted as vandalism (duh),but it's still being bad),there are many types:

1.Spam - Users who simply spam replies with content most likely unrelated to the threads' theme to fill them up (One example of this can be seen in the Level Maker thread ),or make extremely long comments (e.g:LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO...).This may also happen in the main pages' comments.

2.Harassment/Insulting/Misbehavior - This is not common,but it has happened in some cases.This includes insulting a user (In most cases this users use bad words),or saying things like "Go to hell and mind your own ******* business" (Don't take this seriously,is just a example of this type of conduct).This conduct may also be seen in users' message walls.

3.Sockpuppetry - When users make multiple accounts to pretend that they are different persons,as a way to make users believe that they are against many people but they are just against 1 (This can be noticed by knowing that those "users" all act in the same way and with the same purpose).This includes some people that make accounts for their family (Brothers/Sisters) with the same purpose than sockpuppeteers,and banned users (specially vandals) that make new accounts to keep doing what they did (e.g:Ankungree returns ).This doesn't includes people that lose their accounts and make new ones,or people that make a new account and stop using their old account (E.g:PartySans and 677PoopillionZ are the same user,but the PartySans account isn't being used for sockpuppetry).

4.Underaged users - Not counted as vandalism or something bad,but something to keep in mind about underaged users is that the Terms and Conditions of wiki say that no one under 13 should have a account in wikia (Highlighted this cause since nearly no one reads them,nearly no one knows this).Some of this users were Fan-Maker (10),Luis Vinelo (5?!)and Vifer (10) (They've been already blocked).

Against vandalism,i recommend to warn that user with a short (1-2 weeks/month) ban and a warning message on their message wall,and that if they keep vandalizing,ban them permanently.If the user apologizes (e.g:Karate-Chan ),it's fine to unblock it,however,if it keeps vandalizing after being unblocked,banning it again is the only option (Has never happened,but just in case it happens in the future ).