Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-31433695-20180515025812/@comment-31433695-20180515073251

Anonminati, actually it's about critiquing and cataloging the most interesting vandalism from a humorous and artistic perspective, including analogous concepts in other media, traditional ones like radio... two examples of extremely clever "vandalism" of that, both by the great Chris Morris, would be him filling up a news room with helium right before a news broadcast so staff had no opportunity to change staff before the broadcast, and sneaking a banned comedy sketch out onto BBC Radio 1... Banksy might be another example of a real life "vandal" worth noting... and also there's the generally less creative types of vandalism like bathroom stall graffiti. Though that's occasionally pretty hilarious too. Also about pointing out how in comparison, changing a wiki page's text to read "Alan Thompson likes peepees" or to write up a false synopsis of an episode of a TV show where all the established characters start gettin' overly amorous with each other just... isn't at all funny, clever, or creative. So the attitude of the Wiki towards online vandalism is sort of... "Vandalism's bad, don't do it, but if you must, at least put in the effort and study the greats", in a half-joking tone. Sometimes even if you don't condone the methods a person uses to express themselves, they do so in a genuinely artistic manner that's worth... real critique and cataloging. Again, the entire spectrum of real world graffiti being a good example. Also, I get to do mildly silly things that at least I find funny like self-referential pseudovandalism of the wiki itself 😄