Thread:User talk:Inquisitor Ehrenstein/Category:Spammers and whatnot/reply

Thanks for letting me know.

I also believe that denying recognition is also important, as it discourages people from vandalizing in the first place. While on any popular wiki, vandalism won't last long, with varying levels of overtness, the goal of many vandals would be to at least make themselves famous among the admins since they're vandalism would be reverted and go unnoticed. Because of our purpose, I think it's especially unnecessary to devote a lot of policy or infrastructure to dealing with spam and vandals, beyond just what is needed to get rid of it. Also because of our purpose, I think it's not quite as important to maximize denying recognition since this isn't a major vandalism target the way the English Wikipedia is. That said, it's still important and we shouldn't have "monuments" to vandals by doing things like publicly listing their sockpuppets and how to look out of them.

As for spammers, I'm not sure it's quite as important to deny recognition since all they do is post massive numbers of links and advertisements, and they aren't affected by how people deal with them. I agree that because of our purpose, we shouldn't devote a lot of the website to worrying about them.