Thread:Tokina8937/@comment-4360159-20200610010552/@comment-4360159-20200611011724

I do want to preface this to thank you for getting back to us and taking time to address our concerns.

That said, even based off of this clarified criteria, it is still our belief as a staff that this report was not addressed satisfactorily. I do want to take a moment to expound upon a few of the concerning contributions I had linked in my original post– and I apologize as some of the links in the original message may have been made less accessible (e.g. "several" contains three distinct links packed together).

From the links in my initial message, the following are five of some of the very first chronological contributions by this vandal on our primarily family-oriented wiki:
 * Firstmost chronological edit makes an inappropriate reference to a terroristic event,
 * Secondmost edit replaces content with "this hair sucks lol",
 * Thirdmost edit replaces swaths of content with arabic characters, including snide vandalism comments of "no one actually cares" and "UGC SUCKS!",
 * Fourthmost edit replaces content with "kthxbai",
 * First of only two contributions caught by our abuse filter attempted to replace content stating "s_e_x is great".

We do maintain our belief that deference was not the obvious option, based off of these very first indentifiable contributions from this vandal. We hope that you can agree that there is little room for ambiguity that these are malicious contributions, inline with the criteria you stated.

From our correspondence, I hope that I am not misconstruing our message– we vehemently believe in the tasks performed by you and the rest of the VSTF. I do not mean to convey entitlement on our part by dictating our expectations for those of you who graciously volunteer to clean whole sloughs of wikis. However, we still do place considerable trust that our editors can reliably resort to the VSTF where our local moderation lacks (i.e. U.S. overnight when many of our staff is offline). We did ultimately render appropriate actions to resolve the issue locally, but we only managed this 8 hours after the initial report– which is solely a fault of ours.

To take a page from my original message, we bring this up in hopes that this instance may help with addressing reports from other wikis in the future and mitigate future reports from being overlooked. We do not believe this report is the start of a trend of mishandled reports, but we thought to bring it up anyways for your consideration. Thank you.