User blog comment:ForestFairy/How to Take the Fun Out of Trolling/@comment-26543034-20150701170727

In my time dealing with vandals and trolls on Wikipedia, the IRR (ignore, revert, report since most Wikipedia users aren't administrators) model is the ideal method when dealing with a vandal or troll who clearly doesn't have a long history with Wikipedia (i.e. probably some preteen who just discovered he could edit Wikipedia 15 minutes earlier). When it comes to more complex issues involving users, the IRR process often falls way too short. Normally on Wikipedia, a thread would be opened to deal with long-term problematic users or other complex issues on the Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents subpage, and community consensus would determine if the user is undermining the goals of Wikipedia in some way, and what preventative actions should be taken if they are in the wrong.

On the smaller Wikis in Wikia, however, such a massive community base probably doesn't exist, so determining consensus and dispelling doubts about a user is much harder to do legitimately. Some Wikias have maybe just one acting administrator, so the burden ends up on them to deal with any problematic or subversive users they encounter.

In this case, I think it would be interesting to have a sub-community of the VSTF where administrative members of smaller wikis (smaller wikis can be defined by the number of admins, articles, etc.) could pool their experiences and resources concerned with dealing with trolls or other problematic users, along with other administrative actions that may be of concern. Oh, what am I saying, I'm just blabbering on now. Anyways, that's all I have to say.