Thread:Cook Me Plox/@comment-7570526-20130923042050/@comment-1724320-20130923174927

I mean, both of you have to realize that people join the VSTF to clean up spam and vandalism, not the other way around. It's awesome that you guys want to help out (and there's plenty of stuff to do), but if you're doing it for the chance of getting new user rights then you're probably going to be disappointed -- these things are not my decision to make, and even if they were there are other significant factors that have to be looked at. Helping me with what I'm working on will certainly earn you my gratitude and respect (plus it'll be useful work), but it's not like it's going to fast-track you to joining the VSTF.

I guess my main point is that the VSTF is really not a big deal -- it's an interesting volunteer role that comes with a few new responsibilities and tools. There are tons of things that everybody can do to help stop spammers and vandals on Wikia, whether it's helping out on #cvn-wikia or corralling spam wikis in bulk. If you keep doing that, then good things will happen. But don't do it to angle at a better shot at VSTF membership -- it just doesn't work that way.

If you guy are interested in my personal anti-spam project you can message me on chat -- I don't want to put the information about it in a totally public space.