User blog comment:Legionwrex/Leaving the wiki./@comment-3458041-20110502210721/@comment-217683-20110502222350

I'm not sure what was meant by "so dont pump it up". I wasn't pumping anything up (whatever that means). I was giving an accurate recounting of what has happened. As for templates being modified, all I can say is that, once the edits were undone, there's no reason that an image would keep showing up. The only way it would is if the vandalism hadn't been undone.

As for bad advertisement being better than no advertisement, no, not really. Not when the bad advertisement serves to sully the reputation of the wiki and cause people to thing poorly of us. Finally, information is power. Since this blog has been running, it's actually gotten easier to keep track of the vandal and shut him down quickly. And you'll note that we don't showcase any of the vandal's work. The blog exists to deprive the vandal of the ability to showcase his work, and seems to have done so admirably. If you want to call an effective tool that has greatly aided the fight against this vandal a mistake, feel free. I'll respectfully disagree. All I'm asking is that you don't come here and belittle what we've been dealing with, as your first post did. I don't deny that the Halo wiki vandal was nasty, which is why I wouldn't go onto the Halo wiki and say I "don't think he's anywhere near as threatening as he's being made out to be." Nor would I tell people to be happy they didn't have to deal with the ME Wiki vandal. I wasn't there. I didn't have to deal with the Halo wiki vandal. So I really wouldn't know what I was talking about, and would respect the local community enough not to assume I did, or to belittle their anti-vandalism efforts as mistakes.