Thread:Hackey5/@comment-29680837-20190413203838/@comment-5645428-20190414025817

The truth is that it is actually faster for me if no one edits following vandals’ edits. As a staff member I have access to moderation tools to the extent I can instantly rollback all the edits of a user, delete all their created pages and follow that with a block, just with a few clicks. Powerful stuff, and definitely discouraging if these trolls actually knew the difference between mine and their efforts. However, if people try to revert themselves, and it’s not their fault, but certain complex pages sometimes change their layout automatically for some reason. As a result, I have to go through manually to ensure everything displays right due to silly software bugs and the reversions were full and also applied to all pages, since people tend to miss stuff here and there.

It’s not really a big deal, just standard procedure as part of maintaining the wiki. People think vandals have a ‘chance’ to ‘break’ the wiki when really it’s out of the question. They will always fail to inflict severe damage no matter what strategy they use.

We are indeed short on staff. I’m not the only one, although there isn’t a large project workload for them anymore, so it’s mostly just periodic moderation for us. I do think it’d be nice to have a bigger team though to be honest.