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Examples of '''group vandalism''' include:
*[[spam]] - where the group is an [[interest group]] promoting some commercial interest, and the vandalism is the adding of [[external link]]s to pages to boost their [[google rank]] etc.
*[[vandalbot]] attacks - the group may consist of only one active person with others applying [[technological escalation]] in the background to create and distribute the technologies - which they deny intending to use to vandalize any one group - see [[Recyclopedia]] for the best known example of this.
*[[troll vandalism]] - a [[faction]] sharing some [[New Troll point of view]] temporarily cooperates to vandalize pages, e.g. [[SOLLOG]]'s assault on [[Wikipedia]] [[wiki bio]] pages of [[Jim Wales]] and others
*[[sysop vandalism]] - the group is the [[sysop power structure]] - see [[Wikimedia]] and [[GodKing]] and [[undelete page]] for issues
*[[funded troll]]s may also selectively employ [[vandalism]] but there are no known cases of this except perhaps the [[troll war]] that raged in October 2004 in [[Wikipedia]]'s [[wiki bio]] pages of [[John F. Kerry]] and [[George W. Bush]]. It is not clear that the [[smear campaign]]s were each funded by the other side, but they were certainly stirred up by [[negative campaign ad]]s that gave the information that the trolls used.

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142.177.10.21 at 15:51, 24 January 2005