User:Drek'TharSuperSword/Dealing with trolls

This is for Plants vs. Zombies Wiki:Dealing with trolls and subject to change.

On any wiki, sometimes you'll have to face trolls who vandalize pages and/or spam nonsense garbage. They usually give up after the first block, but in some cases they'll keep coming back every few days or weeks. This could be very frustrating especially if there are no admins around, and sometimes might even lead people into doing unnecessary things.

Here are some useful protips to deal with such trolls.

Never feed the trolls
"Feeding the trolls," i.e. interacting with them, such as telling them to stop vandalizing is a horrible idea, and this could cause them to troll even further. Trolls know what they're doing is wrong, so it's absolutely pointless to interact with them, as they'll ignore it and instead laughs at you for doing so. What you should do in this case is to immediately report the user, and don't try to reply any of their messages if they commented on it. They'll eventually get tired and stop if you don't feed them.

Keep reverting whatever they do
When they vandalize articles or pages, immediately revert them by undoing the revision or use the rollback feature when available. This will help easing up the efforts of cleaning up the mess. Also, you can get more edits and badges just by doing so, so it's really a good idea to keep reverting them than to wait for admins to do the cleanup.

Beware of traps
Occasionally, trolls might set up traps, such as "making truce." Don't fall into such trap! Think about it: would they really stop what they do if you do what they want? Of course not! This falls back to never feed the trolls, since you're still interacting indirectly with them in this case.