Thread:Herald of meridian/@comment-25364614-20150302071827/@comment-1430834-20150303092940

When is it appropriate to clean the comments?

Since this cleanup will be done for the first time, there shouldn't be any issue with leaving the schedule for "when it begins piling up" and "when the vitriol is too much".

How to go about doing it? (temporarily disable comments, clean until the first page is vitriol-free, enable comments)

The wiki's not big enough to warrant a temporary shutdown in making comments. To me, I'd keep the potentially toxic post/s up for up to a week (or three days in high-traffic character articles) and decide after that. Some posts doesn't have that kind of bias at first. They only explode into a shitstorm in certain conditions, and this dies down the moment it leaves the front page.

How to target and deal with (repeat) offenders?

Block them till they get tired of shitposting. >:3

How to make sure this doesn't get out of hand again?

I'm not fond of creating a set of strict rules for the article comments. Will people actually read it, I wonder? We'll probably settle for a short list of guidelines, nothing too harsh for everyone.

Oh, thanks for the reports, by the way.