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On the internet, vandalism is the act of editing a website (usually a wiki) to introduce incorrect or nonsensical information, remove valid content, or otherwise disrupt the intended purpose of the website. Sneedposters often vandalize Wikipedia articles with the word Sneed in the title by adding a reference to the infamous scene from the Simpsons, usually being reverted by Wikipedia jannies in a matter of minutes due to an automated filter flagging words and phrases such as "Sneed" and "feed and seed". However, this can be circumvented by placing certain characters between letters, for example: "S_need".
Actions against vandalism on Wikipedia
On Wikipedia, if you include certain words in your edit (such as Sneed), it will trigger an "LTA 1137", which alerts Wikipedia Janitors that a certain page might've been vandalized.
On the Soyjak Wiki
Soyjak Wiki has been vandalized by both humans and bots. In April 2021, the wiki was attacked by bots that created spam pages based on what appeared to be clickbait-style news articles, seemingly in order to advertise a shady blog/news website. [2] This caused Soot, who usually employs a laissez-faire policy towards the wiki, to step in and manually delete the bots' various misdemeanors. In order to mitigate the threat of further spam, Soot implemented Recaptcha, which proved highly controversial with the userbase. Due to privacy concerns and reCaptcha's poor user-friendliness, Soot soon replaced this with a "math captcha" that allows users to enact changes to wiki pages only after correctly answering a simple math question. This both solved the bot problem and proved satisfactory to the wiki's userbase.
Soyjak Wiki's former janitorial staff have accused some wiki users of being vandals, causing controversy in the soyjak.party community as part of a wider backlash against the wiki's moderation strategy. Some Chuds have argued that the moderators use "vandalism" as a hostile epithet for the inclusion of narratives that they (allegedly) disagree with.
See also
- Long-term abuse
- Alex Sazonov, a Russian chad who got banned for no reason on Wikipedia.
- Wikipe-tan
- Operation Wikisneedia
