Wikipedia:Go ahead, vandalize

You might get caught by an automatic filter. If so, just change your text and click save again. And again. And again, until your edit is saved.

The only rule of this game is that you generally can't do it to any pages that display the

So you were able to vandalize, right? Here's what will happen next:

1. Your vandalism will be
   reverted. It will usually happen within minutes, if not seconds. A lot of obvious vandalism is reverted automatically (and usually immediately) by an automated computer program ClueBot NG
   .
2. You will be left with an
   history
   of your talk page, and anyone will be able to see it (unless you request revision deletion or oversight, but in those cases users with those privileges will still see them anyway).
3. Your acts of vandalism will always be a part of your
   shouting", or (literally) "possible vandalism". Unless someone asks an admin to hide your edit
   , anyone will be able to see your vandalism, which will look really, really ugly if you are striving to be a respected editor. Even if someone does, admins can still see your vandalism edit. Even if oversighters overlook your vandalism edit, they can still see the edit.
4. If you continue vandalizing (and yes, you can!), you will be left with more ugly messages, and eventually a big fat ugly message telling you that you are unable to edit Wikipedia. If you try to click edit on any page now (except for your user talk page), you will find this is most definitely not a lie.
5. What can you do now? You may
   appeal the block, of course. Simply add a request
   to your talk page. Sooner or later an admin will see it, and say yes or no. If they say no, you can wait, or you can appeal your block again. If you make too many bad requests or misuse your talk page, though, your talk page access may be revoked.
6. Once your block expires, or if an admin says yes to your appeal, you will be able to edit Wikipedia again! But if you persist with vandalism (or you
   Wikipedian
   .
7. If you vandalize without logging in, it'll make it harder for you or anyone else to make valid edits or register a username while connected via that
   shared IP or a proxy server
   , you are more likely to get blocked for a longer time – maybe even a year or two. Regardless, if you get blocked, other innocent editors, perhaps respected ones, may also get blocked for a while.
8. Any pages that you vandalize may get
   extended confirmed
   users, but as a regular vandal, you will almost never be one of them. At least some innocent users won’t get to edit them for a while, so great job!
9. If you use
   checkuser
   . Your IP address and all of your accounts will be blocked.
10. If you bring your vandalism to other
    projects like Wikibooks or Wiktionary, a steward
    will globally lock your account, preventing you from being able to edit pages on any Wikimedia project. In some cases, your IP may even be globally blocked.
11. If you do lose Internet access due to abuse, just get another internet service provider and you can start the cycle all over again! At least until there are no more providers to abuse the project with. In that case, you might as well resort to other illegal crimes against Wikimedia! Even if it means murder! Go on, do it!
    'Cause rules stink, right?
12. If doing all this by yourself seems too hard, you could ask your friends to help them out, if they're in the mood for it. If not, consider getting your
    little brother or sister, or mischievous cousin
    .
13. And if you ever decide you want to become a productive member of Wikipedia, contributing to the compendium of knowledge available for the education of all on this grand site, you may just find that it’s too late. You may only ever be remembered as a joker. Is that what you want your life’s legacy to be? Eh?