User blog comment:Obsidion Darkhart/Consequences of vandalism (Passed)/@comment-2155069-20100926131629/@comment-3122926-20100926152959

The ones that are cases of obvious vandalism must definitely be dealt with harshly (with those.. instances that you mentioned). The case that I mentioned was, initially to both of us, considered as vandalism with a harmful intent. Malenovolence seemed to be adding redundant categories to pages, and when we chimed in several times, it looked like this was done intentionally. He in-fact, was new to the wiki and "newbs" cannot often resort to unethical ways of editing (cuz when they join, they don't know much). Now what he did is what we deemed harmful vandalism. If we were to adhere to the absolutism mentioned, then we'd have banned him instantly for a whole month... which would then turn up to be wrong, as the person in question ended up being a good editor, apologizing to me for not knowing how to operate on the wiki.