Andrew Gray wrote:
"If it isn't clearly vandalism, don't treat it as vandalism" might be an interesting approach.
And even when it is clearly vandalism, I think it's often worth not it treating as vandalism.
A while back somebody brought up the example of somebody replacing the Earth article with "mostly harmless". I think most would call that clear vandalism, but that doesn't stop it from being a well-meant joke. The person posting that clearly didn't think things through, but it's not clear to me that a virtual yelling-at would improve their thinking skills any.
Most of the obviously worthless contributions I see are people just playing around. The problem isn't that they are playing. It's that they're playing at too low a level, like some enthusiastic kindergarteners running onto the field of a major-league game. We don't want them to stop playing, just to play better, and to avoid ruining things for the audience in the meantime.
William