User blog comment:Bunnyboo50/Wikia is in Danger/@comment-961279-20110515154106

One of the motivations of a vandal is to see how people will react. "Can I get people stirred up and angry by doing this?" For some, it feeds their ego. Others are looking for attention. There's a whole bunch more reasons why they do things like this, but those two are what apply in this situation.

You've done the proper steps. You've removed the pictures and undone the vandalism. You've blocked the accounts. There's a few more that I discovered that you could block if you wanted to be thorough. See the blocks I placed on May 15th.

However, a blog like this only serves to continue to give the vandal attention. Even if they never come back to the place they attacked, it indirectly gives them attention and continues to get people worked up over their actions.

Warning other wikis that a vandal might attack them is a good gesture, showing that you want to look out for a fellow wiki. But doing so via blog falls right back into the vandals hands by getting that wiki stirred up over what might happen. A better way of passing along the warning to to leave a message for an admin, summarizing the problem and providing a link or two that will help them see what happened and why they should take action to help protect their wiki.

Yes, what happened here and on the Glee Wiki was bad. I saw the pictures and the links to the porn/virus sites. But in many ways, this was just yet another vandal. They don't deserve any more attention from us. This blog should be closed and probably should be deleted.