Thread:Tokina8937/@comment-4360159-20200610010552/@comment-9136029-20200610081806

Thanks :) And no, it's not abrasive, I saw more angry than that XD

Actually, I know this wiki has many active admins, especially when there were times where spammers attacked the wiki, it was managed super quickly. The first line of defense against vandals it's you, the local admins. And it's not something that we can deny, we can't step directly on your feet (if you see what I mean) X)

As for the vandal themself, I said there were edits that I couldn't confirm as vandalism. And that was the main issue when I saw the report, so I rathered the user to ask the admins about it, since they better know about the situation. If in the contribs I saw only really bad edits (it's like inserting insults, inappropriate text whatever for which wiki it would be, page blanking), there I would have gotten no doubt and it would have been a block. There are things anyway we can't deal with as all that is local content issues or edit warring between users. After, I'll be honest, but all VSTFs don't always have the same specialty everywhere. Most of time they are very good at both dealing with both vandalism and spam, while some others will take care more of vandalism or more take care of spam (I'm more in this last category).

But now I have a bit more info, if ever they come back as a sockpuppet, now this can be better dealt with. :)

So clearly if you have to retain something in what all I said: when we have a doubt generally we either ask users to ask their local admins, and in some cases staff (when it's constant harassment for example), and it's a bit normal since admins are first defense line, VSTF more being a second defense line. It's the line who will act if ever there is no admin at the moment. But now there is a bit more info, this can help a bit :D