Vandal bin

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The Vandal bin (a.k.a. Vandal brake) is where sysops can put vandals at RationalWiki. Binned vandals are limited to one edit per 30 minutes. If vandals try and do more they see an inedible uneditable text and a snarky comment. It’s like being blocked, except RW sysops can pretend they are better than Conservapedia.

This is a cute trick as it allows RW to, in effect, infinitely ban vandals - while at the same time maintaining their liberal credentials and not actually banning them at all. It other words it allows RW sysops to chemically castrate users while maintaining that they technically are still able to use their testicles.

What vandals see if they try to do too many edits while they are in the vandal bin:[1]

You are unable to edit because you have been placed into the vandal bin. You were put in the vandal bin by $1 and the reason given was: "$3".
While we hope you had fun, we had to do something, so you can only make one edit every 30 minutes now. If this is a mistake or you have turned a new leaf please alert any sysops.
You will be able to edit again in $1 minutes.

Our article: block talks about the problems RW sysops have with coordinating their blocking and binning actions.

[edit] References

  1. The notice, and alternate version for edits through the mediawiki api
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