User talk:24.47.101.160

Vandalism
Thanks for your recent reversions of vandalism. If you spot any more persistent vandalism in the future, please feel free to leave me a message on my talk page and I'll block the vandal so they can't keep repeating it. -- Taohinton (talk) 21:03, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Also, I'm a bit curious.  How do these things start?  I saw it was multiple IPs, so what gets a group of people to go and start vandalizing a page?  Especially for this long of a time.


 * The key thing is almost always a single act of vandalism, from an individual. Once that act is committed, others see the vandalism and basically jump on board. In this case the vandalism was strong and was maintained for a long time, so it attracted a lot of smaller fish too. Most of the IPs were active fairly briefly though, and then disappeared; but the named user kept it going by reverting your and others' attempts to correct the situation. To a lesser degree, the vandalism on primarily the one page even inspired other users to create new vandal pages (now deleted). It's definitely an interesting pattern to observe regarding societal order and standards. -- Taohinton (talk) 01:27, 2 April 2015 (UTC)