Gavin Becomes a Check-user

Synopsis
It was a normal day on the SpongeBob Fanon Wiki. Everything was going normal, but all of a sudden, the whole place went upside down.

Three vandals began making spam pages, spam categories, spam blogs, and spam comments. The three vandals also did this on many other wikis. The more active wikis targeted were fine, as the users were caught out due to heavy patrol on the wikis. But the less active wikis had it harder, especially the SBFW.

Only one user was active at the time of the group spam. That user was Gavin The Otter. When an admin came on several hours later, it was a hard job for them to clean up all the spam. That admin blocked the three vandals, but it wasn’t enough. Those three vandals could come back at anytime. It was also clear that they showed that they had a time-zone similar to that of Gavin.

The admins of the wiki decided that Gavin become a check-user, as any other sock puppets or proxies created by the three vandals were also active on the same time as him (though that spam was much less severe than before). A request was sent into Wikia. They granted Gavin with the check-user rights.

The next day, a much bigger spam attack happened. A total of 10 vandals came, each with 4 different sock puppets and proxies each. The one and only Gavin The Otter was the only user active at the time. He blocked, checked the IP’s the vandals, and as for the proxies, he managed to single them out, and he blocked them all. After he was done with the blocking, Gavin cleaned up the mass amount of spam.

Though after the attack, Gavin rarely ever needed to use his check-user rights anymore, but he still had, in the case of another group spam attack. It was a fairly significant remark, being the first check-user on the SBFW. He wondered if he would achieve anymore user-access levels higher than a bureaucrat. Maybe he wouldn’t be only, at least not for now.

Trivia

 * The unmentioned admin who cleared up the spam after the first attack was The Terrible Travis.