User blog comment:ItsAsIf/How to Deal with a Vandal/@comment-27407250-20171127184754

While not really related to vandalism, when we have chat spammers on my wiki who persist in making new accounts, our approach has been to to monitor new account creation on the wiki and ban suspect users that are created immidiatly after a ban and have a similar username to the banned user. We always make sure that they can still post on their message wall though, and leave them a message explaining the situation on off chance that they are a legitimate user they can let us know. This usually solves the issue quite quickly as the individual quickly realizes that they are unable to persist in their behaviour.