Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20151004230850/@comment-1001528-20151006140933

CoolGamer23 wrote: You might have been another victim of something called hack trolling. On my wiki, here's my description on hack trolling (from the Crest of Xia Wikia):


 * This is one the hardest types of vandalism to commit and possibly the rarest. What happens basically is the vandal hacks the wiki and gains bureaucrat rights, bans the founders, co-founders, and admins (so the people who can ban other users can't), and removes their admin rights. Therefore the hacker takes over the wiki and becomes the new owner. The hacker then plasters the wiki with destructive content and destroys everything on the wiki.

To prevent this:


 * Admins must contact Wikia to reinstate their admins, revoke the hacker's rights (if any are present on the account), and ban the hacker's username. If an active bureaucrat is not available or is being abusive, the wiki may either need to be closed, the bureaucrat to lose it's status, and/or request adoption. Alternatively, this can be prevented if you have proper bots installed.

And how would this prevent things in the future?