Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1445357-20130315142943/@comment-1990160-20130319015054

The5lacker wrote:

Er, you do realize that an anonymous commenter there trolls right there as the first visible post, right? They don't seem to have done anything. Indeed. Now you realize what so many others have before. Anonymity allows people to bear their true face, and it is ugly. Most of the top user levels are filled with users disgusted by the state of anonymous contributions. When I was first promoted to moderator many moons ago, I was passionate and thought that I could clean up the wiki. I was so wrong. I set my Special:RecentChanges to show everything, then scroll through it carefully, picking out the worst comments to be removed. Yet, in just two weeks, my interest waned. I found that the stream of crap never ended, no matter how many comments I deleted. I still try to check the most recent/upcoming champ pages for the worst offenders, and search the wiki for some of the worst swear words (ex. the n word), but the influx of bad comments is unceasing and inevitable on an internet site. In my time I've banned hundreds of IP addresses, yet the next day there are still more vandals. Moderators on this wiki try to patrol for RP scams, obscenity, and the like, but it is never enough.

So I ask you: how important is this anonymous wiki contributor that we fight every day? What he has done for the wiki? Why should we go out of my way to make his vandalism experience more enjoyable?

Various references:
 * Special:Log/block
 * Special:Log/delete
 * User:TehAnonymous/Sandbox