User blog comment:Sannse/Navigating the Wilds of Adminship/@comment-5691231-20130804104734/@comment-8-20130806180315

The "earwig" was random :)  I thought it was better to use that than to include some of the real examples!

You are right about vandalism., it will always be there. And as well as setting the tone for the wiki, keeping it polite has another benefit. It means you are avoiding "feeding the trolls". In other words, you are not giving trolls the reaction they want when they try to disrupt the wiki. A calm and firm response (revert, block, ignore) is much less likely to encourage people than an adgry and overly dramatic reaction

Thanks for the comments DeviantSerpent