Conservapedia:Vandalism Is Pointless
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As a wiki, Conservapedia occasionally attracts vandalism. Despite best guesses, we really cannot see how a vandal war on Conservapedia is winnable. Despite this, some people still day in, day out, create accounts here, for a few short moments of vandalism. So, to discourage that, we have put together an explanation for why this is an illogical move.
So why is conservatism pointless?
Conservatism is pointless because of 2 major factors. Denial of progress does not inhibit the course of time, and clinging with nostalgia to the rose-tinted images of a bygone era that was significantly less perfect than memory is futile. The corporate and upper-bracket tax rates during the idyllic 1950s -- the time seen as the epitome of conservative values in the United States -- approached 91% in some instances. Trickle-down economics was merely a theory, religious and racial tolerances were at a low enough point to trigger the Civil Rights struggle of the following decade, and yet you people seem to ignore your own history rather than learn from it.
People can track edits - Anybody and everybody has the unnatural ability to track edits to articles without actually having to visit the articles. This little bit of magic is called Special:RecentChanges (for those who need help, it is linked to from "Special pages" on the left hand sidebar on every page). Vandals are always easy to spot - It's easy for said edit-trackers to spot vandals by certain qualities, so finding vandalism is even easier, especially on a relatively quiet wiki like this.
This is what most vandals look like:
(diff | hist) . . PageX; 02:15 . . (-3532) . . VandalX (Talk | contribs | block) (Blanked the page);
That is very noticeable. Administrators will descend on it like vultures seeing a carcass, and your stint here will be over. Is that really worth the outburst? We also have a script to revert blatant vandalism - so you're not even wasting any human effort by vandalizing. So in short, you are completely wasting (a lot of) your time. In the end, nothing you do will be permanent, and will take seconds to undo.