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Welcome to mtgvault newcomer
(Or if you are an oldie, welcome back from dormancy)

Sorry to disturb, but at the behalf of the community I'd like to warn you that we have been suffering some troll attacks recently.

The troll revives older accounts and use them to like his own decks, and copies decks from here and other sites, and each time one of us posts something that gets a few upvotes he posts these copies, upvotes them and we all slide into the background

Because of this, all new and older accounts that suddenly come alive are viewed with some suspicions.

I'm warning and archivating all of these accounts.

If you want to help the community there is one thing you should know.
Mtgvault has a tag system that helps you search for a tag, using tags will make you easier 5o find longterm. Some of the new people feel ignored and starts copying their own pages which only helps the troll.

Engage in the community, but be aware that if you get no answers you might have tried to chat up the troll. To be seen by the community your best bet is to start by talking in a deck with many comments. Or even start talking on your own pages. The more comments the more people will see that you ain't the troll.

The troll is also lazy and has no time to write details about his decks, so the more you describe your own deck, the better.

I think I can state from us all that we hope you can somehow add more to the community than a raging troll.

Feel free to jump right into any ongoing conversation or "help needed" page that tickles your inner commentator ;)

I'm wickeddarkman, and though I am behind some initiatives against trolls, there are others who use the tag anti-troll to generate awareness of the troll attacks.

I've collected a number of recent troll behaviours, and if you are somewhat curious about those, search for the decktag: wdm trolls
Then click on the deck named: the tools of our trolls.

This greeting is a template that I copy from one of my personal template pages.
Anyone who wants to greet newcomers or old reawakened users should feel free to create their own version.

Before you greet, make sure that the person is new/reawakened by clicking on their username and study what years the person last were active. Read the newest decks to make sure others haven't welcomed them already ;)

EVERYONE ELSE:
I've been keeping track of my battle against the troll.
Last week my only strategy was to post decks that linked to my anti-troll campaign. At that point the troll just plastered new decks onto the site, burying my message. This meant that the number of decks posted doubled in numbers, and we had 8 pages floating with decks.

Since then I've countered this by contacting everyone who posts with a common warning. This serves three purposes, first everyone become aware of the troll, second, every time the troll revives an old account to try burying my message he actually manages to cause more awareness. Third, he will be burning through his accounts at high speed, and since I'm keeping track of everyone at the moment I will have a list of flagged accounts to refer to if he ever tries to go back to his outdated measures.

I hope everyone will be patient while this happens, but you shouldn't hold back on yourselves, start up chatting with each other. If the person is unresponsive, move on to the next. Use tags, look at decks and find out what you share in common.

A few of the olden members in here recently called me dedicated to this cause, and I am. This is not the only related project for me. I'm also working on personal projects (my prison series that will one day be merged by evolution) and personal problems.

I'm working on how to restore a stronger community once I've tirred out the troll.

Remember that I'm currently more or less alone in this, so I have to be extremely thorough.

So far I'm tracking about 60 users, and when all is said and done, I'm actually just warming up.

If the community wants it I'll post a list of users that are engaging in the community.
Knowing who wants to build up connections will help strengthening this place.

Wickeddarkman out...