User blog comment:TheOneFootTallBrickWall/How vandalism and spam affect wiki editors/@comment-26402117-20170408203848

This is quite well-written btw, congrats.

There is the faint possibility a vandal gives up their disruption to become a normal contributor, but usually they don't get much good faith in that instance.

I recall someone saying "Revert, block, ignore and don't show any emotion about it" in regards to dealing with vandals, which is also solid advice.