User blog comment:Starscream7/Vandal Attacks - To Everyone/@comment-56370-20111125005752

I'd just like to say that I dealt with a lot of vandals in my time, and the best thing to do is just ignore them and roll them back. They're looking for attention, so give them as little as possible.

Vandals aren't looking to win any wars, just to have one. The more attention you give them, the more incentive they have to mess around here. The trick is to just act professional and delete all of their crap, without trying to tell them to stop. Also, avoid terminology such as "war" and "defense," as well as trying to insult or intimidate them.

I was involved in a vandal war a couple of years back on SWFanon, where both sides were making sub-wikis on other sites in order to coordinate their battles, and it got completely out of hand. All it did was encourage the trolls even more, and they were having the time of their lives trying to infiltrate SWFanon's secret wiki bases. It wasn't until the site admins put the kebosh on most of the Anti-Vandals that they finally got some rest.