Andrew Gray wrote:
Of course we don't want to conceal things or to pander to people who get upset because we fail to burnish their haloes... but this isn't anywhere near one of those cases. This is us acting as a carrier for abuse, plain and simple gutter abuse, and not doing anything about it
- nor, indeed, did we even seem to *notice* it in any organised sense
at the time.
Yes, and I think this last point is an important one. In the edit history there are some bot-reversions which are good but which might have the unfortunate side effect of no humans noticing that there was a problem.
There is an editor who describes himself as a newbie on his user page and who seems to have accidentally restored the vandalism. Not good, but you know, things like that are bound to happen.
But overall I do not have the sense that any significant *blame* could be placed on anyone in particular (other than the vandals, but they are not participating in our dialog here). This is the natural workings of the system as we have built it to date.