Forum:AR:Concerning Admins and Late Nights

Figured this is the best place to put this as it's not really a consensus, just a discussion. And it concerns admins anyway.

Last night, and no doubt several times before, but last night in particular, we were hit by a rather persistent and vile vandal. Around 5 am, some moron started uploading NSFW images over existing images for Featured Articles and the main logo. There was an almost two-hour-long showdown with this moron as the images were reverted over and over and over and over and over, and there was no admin in sight.

Just three users and a complete idiot. Apologies for the lack of civility, but vandals like that don't deserve such a luxury. Now, I dunno how long this went on before an admin stepped in as I had finally gone to bed around 6 am. But this shows our weakness. There are no admins in the late night hours. None.

Now, with the past two nominations, it has been said that we have plenty of admins. Sure, for the earlier hours. But what about the late night graveyard shift when the vandals come outta the woodwork and a handful of users spend three hours or more reverting images over and over and over and then plotting the horrific slaughtering of that vandal while doing so? We need at least one admin who would be active during those hours. Or at least request a Wikia staff member to watch over the place for those hours.

Such a rash of vandalism will happen again, as it's the Internet. It's like jumping into an open septic tank. So, I am posing the possibility of either adding a late-night admin to the repitiore, or requesting that a Wikia staff member watches over the place for the span of time that an admin isn't online. I, personally, don't wanna deal with another night like that. Your thoughts?  Trak Nar  Ramble on 03:16, April 3, 2010 (UTC)