Reverting Answers

At one time or another, Supervisors have caught vandals on WikiAnswers. Unlike other contributors who make honest mistakes, vandals are usually not candidates for reform and, unfortunately, need to be blocked in order to stop their wake of destruction.

But what do you do about the mess left behind? They may have destroyed perfectly good answers and caused many previously unanswered questions to be removed from the list. To quickly clean up the nonsense, select one of the vandalized questions and use the Revert tool located under Question Tools on the left side of the page. Reversion enables us to undo the damage done by a vandal without editing line by line.

Typically you should only revert back to the last version (highest numbered on the list). If you're uncertain, click to view a side-by-side comparison between the one you have selected and the current version. The answer on the left that appears in yellow under "Reversion as of X" will be what you end up with after a reversion. Follow these steps for each vandalized question.