User:Ace McWicked/Sandbox

Vandal break abuse
I have been on RW for nearly 12 years now - probably the earliest user still around. I helped craft many of the Community Standards (mainly through breaking things first), was an original member of the Loya Jirga and was one of the first batches of Mods, elected twice in a row (or might have been three times). I helped mediate and create many of the early issues RW had and in particular dealing with troublesome users. The ethos of this site is written directly on the front page
 * We welcome contributors, and encourage those who disagree with us to register and engage in constructive dialogue.

RW has always had a soft touch when it comes to banning (rarely happens) and vandals (repeat vandals/obvious vandalism go in the vandal bin. Everyone else has nearly free reign. Every time I login these days I find someone being vandal binned who is clearly not a vandal. The vandal rules say,
 * If somebody is persistent, but not clearly a vandal, it may be useful to restrict their edit rate, but not block them

However the people being vandal binned sometimes made 2 - 4 edits before being vandal binned without any attempt to take things to talk first so I had a look at the first 50 vandal logs and have found it is being used persistently to silence or restrict users who have done nothing wrong. As if people are too lazy to engage with people and shoot first. And the same names pop up over and over again. Here are the logs
 * George111s 1 edit, not vandalism - binned by Oxyaena
 * Nightwave 1 edit, not vandalism - binned by Oxyaena
 * Cindybic no edits - binned by Oxyaena
 * Noober 2 edits removing vandalism - Oxyaena
 * Kotterdlae314 legitimate edits - binned by GrammarCommie
 * Chuckrr 1 edit, legitimately reverted but vandal binned with no attempt at discussion - Oxyaena
 * Sadistic666 1 edit, editor made an error when signing a post to a mainpage, no discussion - Oxyaena
 * YuriV 2 edits, legitimate edits - binned by Oxyaena
 * Nomionly 1 edit, commented on the article age, rather than a talkpage (easy enough mistake to make if you don't know how to use a wiki), no discussion - vandal binned by - Oxyaena
 * St3ph3nall3n 8 edits, slightly controversial but no vandalism, no discussion with user - binned by GrammarCommie
 * Garbageboy, 2 edits, both legitimate - binned by Oxyaena
 * Frankiie, 4 edits, all legit - binned by CogitoNotStirred
 * TheReturnofDickyBoy! 1 edit, legit - binned by GrammarCommie
 * Iacentem Omissio 9 edits, all legit - binned by CogitoNotStirred
 * Steve Bonnell 1 edit, probably legit - binned by Oxyaena
 * Snorlax Hunter 2 edits, both legit - binned by GrammarCommie
 * Bruhbruh42069 1 edit, border-line but binned by Oxyaena
 * Mike logo 3 edits, unknown veracity - binned by Oxyaena

Seeing a pattern? None of the above meet the bar for vandal binning and this is only the first page of logs. This is clearly a misuse of the vandal bin with Oxyaena being far and away the worst offender. This is not how the vandal bin should be used firstly and secondly no attempt was made to ask these users what the were doing, advised of RW policy - just straight to the bin. This activity needs attention as it is right against our community standards and a pretty piss poor way to conduct things. Acei9 07:28, 18 October 2019 (UTC)