User blog comment:Sannse/Calm Over Conflict/@comment-168424-20180119231146

Here's the original blog: Converting Conflict to Calm October 7, 2011

Some good comments in response to the original blog:

To try and cut back on the number of people that have knee-jerk reactions to vandalism, I wrote a page Dealing with vandalism and spam. There's some overlap with what you wrote, Sannse, but this seems to be more for advice when you're still in the negotiation phase of solving a problem, whereas my page is for after the fact when you have to clean up the mess that was made.

- October 10, 2011 by RRabbit42

I sometimes find that taking a break, like using the time between talk page messages is more useful than speaking to them instantaneously. It allows for a few minutes (to hours) to collect your thoughts and consider the other person's view. If I'm in a real-time chat I tend to think the situation not as far out as I would if I had say several minutes to an hour or so to think things out.

- October 8, 2011 by TyA

If you have problems with serial vandals who don't seem to give up, please send us a message on the VSTF Wiki and we'll help keep an extra eye on the wiki and assist with our tools in preventing further damage.

- October 7, 2011 by Charitwo