User blog:Psychicken17/An Explanation of Recent Happenings

These last few days have been quite turbulent and a lot's been going on, so here's a quick rundown: That's the end of the saga and hopefully nothing else bad will happen. The VSTF did an excellent job reverting Maxwell's damage, and most if not all of the pages he deleted have been fully restored. If you do come upon any remaining vandalism, revert it yourself or contact an admin if it requires deleting or undeleting a page.
 * 1) On April 6th, the previously inactive admin Maxwell the Scribblenaut deleted the userpages of many active users and admins, including RhythmWalker, Joshduman, and myself, Psychicken17. He also defaced the wiki's theme to be almost unreadable black-on-black text. We were able to relatively quickly revert these changes. I also blocked Maxwell's account for a year to prevent this from happening again.
 * 2) Little did I remember that admins are able to unblock themselves, the only punishment being a 24-hour autoblock period. So the morning of April 8 was quiet.
 * 3) About a day after the initial ban, Maxwell the Scribblenaut, now unbanned, proceded to begin massively vandalizing the wiki. This included defacing the theme even more, replacing the homepage, replacing various images with other ones, and deleting dozens of pages. To make matters worse, he blocked all of the admins, so we were powerless to stop him for at least 24 hours.
 * 4) At around 10PM EST on April 8, I contacted Wikia about this rogue admin, as well as went to Community Central's chat to spread the word a bit.
 * 5) By 8 AM EST on April 9th, Wikia had responded. They send a VSTF force (a group of spam fighters) to help revert some of the vandalism. In addition, they restored status quo by unbanning all of the blocked users. Finally, they globally banned Maxwell's account, preventing further problems.

Hope this helps everyone understand what happened!