Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-91424-20180402220900/@comment-34649550-20180405164104

Nightlily wrote: As many of you know, there have been numerous attacks by trolls over these last months. Not only do they vandalize the wiki and desecrate the articles that you work so hard to build, they also harass the users on forums and message walls (they even have a group of users which they target every time, which is cyberbullying). The similarities in the way they attack make me think that it is the same troll (or maybe two trolls) every time. We admins do our best to block them as soon as we can, but admins also have lives outside the wiki; we still need to eat, sleep, go to work, etc, so as much as we wish we could be online all the time, we simply can't.

For several weeks now, I have been in contact with Wikia about the trolls (aka bullies), because you all deserve to feel safe on our wiki; none of you should have to endure what the bullies do to you. You deserve to be rid of this trash permanently. Wikia tried to solve the problem by adding a global block against one of the IP addresses used by the trolls and also did a local range block (technical restrictions applied to a group of IP addresses that prevent them from editing, creating new accounts etc.). Unfortunately, it didn't work; the trolls are still attacking.

Therefore, I have suggested another solution to Wikia: that we change the settings for new user accounts, so that new users would need a confirmed e-mail address and an account that is at least four days old, before they can edit. This would not affect current users, only new users, and it should make trolling, vandalism, harassment and cyberbullying far more difficult. Wikia is open to the idea and is willing to implement it, but only if the users agree. So... What do you think? what measures are you referring to?