Thread:Jenburton/@comment-258494-20160527201111

Greetings,

The Gerontology Wiki was founded in 2007 and intended to be run as an encyclopedia. Unfortunately, the default model of allowing anyone to sign up for an account is failing, and greatly. A torrent of obscene material has been spewed upon our Wiki in the past year or so.

Today, someone made a fake account, implying my death. Others have been told to commit suicide. This rises to potentially criminal activity. At the moment, I am not familiar enough with the Wikia systems to be able to stop this harassment. I think one solution would change the status of new members from "default anyone can sign up" to "default new accounts cannot edit until approval". Something as simple as this could greatly reduce the extreme negativity that seems to be perpetuated mostly by just one person...despite the stalkerish behavior of this one person, the amount of vandalism he has engaged in has been in extreme. Please, immediate assistance is requested at the Gerontology Wiki...not just blocks but assistance with tools to prevent the recurrence of what is occurring.Ryoung122 (talk) 20:11, May 27, 2016 (UTC) 