Board Thread:Council of Admirals/@comment-30245159-20170427130856

Hi folks, last night was certainly interesting! Multiple user accounts vandalized the wiki. It seems the first target was JazHaz's profile page, then the Policies pages, and then other random pages.

I'm not an experienced user and so it's not obvious to me how to report these things. The only contact method I could figure out was to post on the walls of users listed as admins. That did nothing but invite the vandals to post there as well.  Undoing their wiki edits was futile. Since the policies pages got nuked, most of the links to finding the admins disappeared. I could find no "report user" or "report abuse" or "report edit" options anywhere on the wiki.  Ultimately I posted for help on something called VSTF and it seems someone there eventually blocked the vandals and helped undo the damage.

I don't know how these things work but it seems that it shouldn't be so easy for someone to create random accounts and begin mass deleting wiki content, admin policies, and even other users' profile content. Are there no security options for this that could be enable?

Also I think it needs to be easier to find out where/how to contact someone for help in cases like these, given that the vandals seem to target the policies/help info first. There should be a confidential reporting option that the vandals can't see and delete.

Anyhow, maybe all this is normal, I dunno.  Just hoping there are some better options to prevent it.

Thanks and regards, Kyle.<ac_metadata title="Recent vandalism"> </ac_metadata>