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Please report any rule violations in this thread. Notifying us of such incidents is highly appreciated.

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Ant is looking into it. It might have been due to using WHAM, or a glitch. Don't know yet.
 
There was some kind of glitch when I used WHAM. It deleted the entire thread rather than just the troll comments, and it was not possible to restore properly.

I have asked in the Dev wiki to get information about what happened.
 
I have been informed that TGOP was banned due to a misunderstanding, since a staff member thought that he asked for information how to dox people.
 
@Antvasima

I'm talking with TGOP privately about the issue's details.
 
I was just informed that he has been unbanned.
 
Antvasima said:
I have been informed that TGOP was banned due to a misunderstanding, since a staff member thought that he asked for information how to dox people.
So not the reason many of us thought.
 
Antvasima said:
There was some kind of glitch when I used WHAM. It deleted the entire thread rather than just the troll comments, and it was not possible to restore properly.
This happened to me once with a Dragon Ball thread. I accidentally edited a user's comment thinking it was my own comment (I was a bit distracted at the time), and, after I noticed what happened, I tried to remove the edits from my contributions, but it ended up eerasing the whole thread.

So no, this isn't a one-off glitch. It happens rather frequently.
 
Yes.
 
Yep. Looked through the guy's contributions and found nothing but distasteful comments.
 
Pro-life tip for admins; all it takes is a half-second button click, namely "Rollback all edits" in WHAM, to revert vandalism like this.
 
Unfortunately WHAM did not work for reverting the topics changes, but I have informed the Dev wiki staff about the issue, so they should hopefully have solved it soon.
 
Antvasima said:
Unfortunately WHAM did not work for reverting the topics changes, but I have informed the Dev wiki staff about the issue, so they should hopefully have solved it soon.
I hope they solve this issue soon.
 
Antvasima said:
The Dev wiki staff helped me to install a new filter that should prevent all accounts that are less than 4 days old or have less than 200 edits from changing any discussion thread topics.
@AKM

This is what they did. I don't know if they will fix this bug in the WHAM script though.
 
I don't like the idea of new users waiting to have 200 edits before they can change the topics in the threads they make.
 
Well, I am afraid that it is the only way for us to get protection against the trolls constantly messing up our threads. My apologies.
 
Definitely not 50, and preferably not 100 either. The trolls are fanatic enough to be able to reach that degree of edits with an account before going on a thread topic changing spree. 200 should be beyond their patience though.
 
Antvasima said:
Well, I am afraid that it is the only way for us to get protection against the trolls constantly messing up our threads. My apologies.
The other way would've been if they were just willing to fix WHAM.
 
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