On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I would really like everyone to stop throwing around the word "vandalism" except in the narrowly-described cases of:
- scribbling graffiti, like "Hi, I'm a newbie"
- deleting a page without explanation
- obvious obscenity
I totally agree with this. But I also think it's important that we keep this word, as it is indispensible precisely for those cases. No one should ever be accused of misusing the word "vandalism" when quite properly labelling pictures of goatse, for example, and why they're removed.
Larry