User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Turning Readers into Editors/@comment-24186365-20140322001158/@comment-20644-20140323180913

Remember too that you don't want to give vandals, be they anonymous users or accounts, any attention. That's what they're after. If you're an admin, then you should block the vandal, revert the vandalism, and then ignore the vandal&mdash;meaning, beyond clean up, don't acknowledge them or what they did in any way. Same goes for if you're not an admin: report the vandalism and then ignore the vandal.