Editing Susning.nu (section)

=== Issues with vandalism ===
A significant difference from the [[Swedish Wikipedia]] was that Susning did not have any voluntary [[Wikipedia administrators|administrators]] who could assist in blocking other users; the only person who could do that on Susning was Lars Aronsson. As Susning grew, the issue with [[Vandalism on Wikipedia|vandalism]] became bigger. In December 2003, Susning was affected by a vandal who had automatized their activity through a [[scripting language|script]]. In just a few minutes, thousands of articles were deleted. Several users were forced to spend hours restoring them. The issues increased even further with vandals who added [[pornography|pornographic]] images and made the site inaccessible. The issues with vandalism were practically going on daily. To aid removal and discovery of vandalism, a "[[karma]] system" was added on February 22, 2004. The system derailed fairly soon, as the karma only could decrease. Because of this, even the most established "susare" were affected by bad karma. The karma system was shut down on March 25, 2004.

As a last attempt at preventing vandalism, the ability to see images was shut down entirely on April 5, 2004. However, a couple of days later it was possible to add images from certain chosen [[domain name]]s. Due to a [[software bug|bug]] in the system, there were ways to evade this, which the vandals utilised. The bug was fixed on April 15, 2004, but a few minutes later that day, all editing on Susning.nu was shut down. Aronsson announced that the editing abilities would be shut down until a solution to the vandalism issues had been found, and that a [[password]] system would be imposed.