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Considering how you guys don't even use this thread for notifications, this thread now strikes me as useless and just a place to vent our constant hatred for those oh-those-sneaky vandals and the very occasional prankster from another NIWA wiki. If you really want to complain about this stuff, just PM it to the admins or something. I don't know if it's going to further stuff their inboxes with crap, but it's probably better than this attention-feeding vehicle.
 
Dr. Mario said:
If you really want to complain about this stuff, just PM it to the admins or something. I don't know if it's going to further stuff their inboxes with crap, but it's probably better than this attention-feeding vehicle.
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I don't want to seem vindicative, but that's kinda rich since most of the problematic content come from you and your sister. Let's take a look at some of your posts, shall we?

Dr. Mario said:
Welp, there goes any shred of credibility.
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Dr. Mario said:
Nice try.

Update: now delete all of these revisions by this scumbag.
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Dr. Mario said:
Fabulous.

Consider this lovely revision too. The ban should've been longer.
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? Block said:
God I have to clean up after his mess
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? Block said:
how freaking desperate is this user
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Reporting vandals in here? Kinda helpful! There are times where I skip recent changes so receiving a quick heads-up here is useful. But oh-so-witty snark, whining, mini-modding and lengthy back-and-forts about how an inept-but-not-trolling user is Omg Totally Fail You Guyz? Not helpful.
 
God I hate my emotions at times.
 
The topic could be helpful because admins -may have- allowed this topic to notify them by E-mail, so if they are away from the wiki for some reasons, this notification will help.. Then again, not to mention this being unlikely.. Like what Glowsquid said, people -including myself at least once in the past because I didn't think of it- keep posting messages regarding taken actions, and feeding the trolls. If there was a way to enforce users to post just the name of the troll and don't post anything else (like changing the title to "Report ONLY the vandal name here" or something -if people would realize and obey this rule- (I'm breaking this rule right now) then MAYBE this could be worth the keeping.. I mean, you could use PMs and Wiki Talk pages to notify an admin of the situation, but it is one admin, and notifying all admins, could be annoying and more-like-spam.. In all cases, it's up to you.
 
I can only speak from my own experiences, but during my active sysop time, whenever my schedule allowed me to be present on the wiki, I was present on the wiki. If I wasn't there, that meant I could not be there at that moment, even if an email would have notified me.

To be honest, whenever I came online, I checked the wiki first, then the forum, then the wiki again, and maybe THEN my emails (and then the wiki again). So emails would have only notified me of things I would have already known at that point.

Obviously I have no idea how other admins handle their wiki patrolling, but if they do it anything like I used to, email notification is going to be completely useless to them. Especially if half of the notifications turn out to be about posts discussing the known exploits of a vandal who has already been pointed out, or something like that.

So yeah, personally I think whatever benefits this thread might bring are too miniscule to outweigh its troll-baitiness.
 
I do that too, but when I'm busy, like watching YouTube, I have a little notification icon in Chrome, that almost immediately notify me of new emails. I spoke like If all people have this thing, anyway I said that is unlikely.
 
I have my PMs set to email notification, and my email is a tab I always have open, as well as having it linked to my phone so it vibrates whenever I get a new email.
 
Honestly I think the best solution is to lock this thread and directly message sysops or people on the wiki. More.often than not, they're on the wiki and a simple message on their talk page "this guy is making bad edits" is far.better than a thread here that is mostly redundant and encourages people (like me) do make crass and unproffesional behavior.
 
? Block said:
Honestly I think the best solution is to lock this thread and directly message sysops or people on the wiki. More.often than not, they're on the wiki and a simple message on their talk page "this guy is making bad edits" is far.better than a thread here that is mostly redundant and encourages people (like me) do make crass and unproffesional behavior.
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This I completely agree with.