User blog comment:H-Man Havoc/Semi-Protected Pages/@comment-1691295-20110329012629

I think the only way to have prevented this would be to put some sort of limit on the number of edits/page creations within a certain amount of time, and I'm not sure we even have that option.

Certainly there should be a limit on page creation, there's no reason anyone needs to create 100 pages in half an hour, but that's what he did. Nor should it be possible to make 30+ edits in less than a minute. I'd imagine this would need to be baked into wikia though.

I don't think protection would have helped. You would need to lock down the wiki so much that it would hurt regular users. The simple fact is that if we have an open wiki based on user contribution all it takes is some idiot who is determined enough to go nuts.

Thankfully no lasting damage was done, and we do have a very good way to deal with it: Wikia Support. Both times I contacted them over what was happening they responded in less than 30 minutes and they successfully stopped it.

As long as there is a decent user on this wiki who can report the vandalism, the worst that will happen is we might lose some pages for a couple of hours max.