Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-14908162-20161015122304

Hello everyone,

The user TooPointOhh recently made a blog post about vandalism and asked me to link it somewhere. As many of you have likely noticed, there has been an increase in edits where mostly anonymous users remove lyrics from pages without stating why. This clearly is vandalism. The users who do this generally get a warning, and when they do it again they will be blocked. However, this does not seem to help at all and most user who do it will either do it again or never edit again. Therefore, I would like to propose that users who engage in this kind of behaviour will be blocked immediately without receiving a warning. This will not only protect the wiki from more vandalism, but will also likely scare off other people who want to make such edits. To make sure that editors know that these kinds of edits will result in a block, a message on the front page would be appropriate: "Recently there has been a large increase in counterproductive edits where users remove lyrics from pages without stating why. This is vandalism, and it needs to stop. Users would normally get a warning before they were blocked, but we have noticed that this has not stopped the behaviour. Therefore, if a user decides to vandalise a page in the manner shown above, they will immediately be blocked.". The reason why I would like a direct message instead of linking to a blog post is because not all users click the links on the front page, as users still add translations without crediting translators even though the guidelines clearly state that it's mandatory and that these translations will probably be removed. I think adding a message to the front page will have a better effect, as the message is available without having to click any links. The message could be posted in between the first and the last paragraph under the "About Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki" tabber, which is probably to most-read message on the front page. I do not want to install a rule about instablocking vandalising users without also adding some kind of message to the front page, as I think that they should be able to know that their behaviour is wrong before engaging in it and adding a message to the front page is the best way to do this. Therefore the poll is only about the rule itself:

Should users who vandalise pages in this manner be instablocked? Yes No

Feel free to leave comments with questions and/or suggestions. Thank you for reading this message. I'll close the poll in about 3 days, as I think most users will have voted by then. If this is not the case I'll wait a bit longer. Have a nice day =). 