Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5578690-20140209174700/@comment-5578690-20140210035017

Love Robin wrote: This is the Dart Blaster Encyclopedia wiki?

Dartmaster, you are a bureaucrat and admin there. You have very little reason to need Staff's help. You have the power to block each and every vandal which pops up each and every time they do so. The only reason you'd need to contact Staff is to seek global actions, especially if they are evading any global bans, or to report them if you see they are vandalizing multiple wikis.

Otherwise, protecting your own is as simple as a couple clicks. As I stated above, much like brushing lint from your shoulders. Hardly even need to think about it.

That, plus not letting them see they are getting to you, so *don't* engage them at any level, removes all the fun of what they are doing.
 * Vandal: [messing up pages…] "Blocked? Make a new account…"
 * Vandal: [messing up pages…] "Blocked? Make a new account…"
 * Vandal: [messing up pages…] "Blocked? Make a new account…"
 * Vandal: [messing up pages…] "Blocked? Make a new account…"
 * Vandal: [messing up pages…] "Blocked? Again? And he's not even throwing a hissy? No reaction at all? Awww, this is no fun…"

Recently I dealt with a troll who popped back up with a forum declaring "I HATE Love Robin! He's always blocking me!"

I broke my own advice to reply… "'She', if you're going to hate me, and that is your prerogative, then hate me correctly." Then I blocked him again.

So remain cool and calm, no over reactions, and block'm when you's see'm. You also have the ability to block IP ranges, but be careful with that as innocents could get caught in that too. Ask for help with *that* if you choose to do it and you're not sure exactly what you're doing. the culprit has been blocked along with around a dozen sock puppet accounts (avaliable on the blog post). every once in a while, he creates a new account. i'm not sure if he is actually able to reuse an email or he is just resetting his IP as i have blocked off all communications. i also doubt that allowing only 1 email per account will stop him by much along with the restriction of no reusing emails.

you want to give further information regarding range bans? i can probably figure out his IPs by using another mediawiki extension but i'm unsure if local staff is allowed to actually set these types of blocks.