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The Robloxiapedia Vandalism Scale, also known as the Robloxiapedia Vandalism Magnitude Scale, ChikoritaTheRobloxian's Vandalism Magnitude Scale, or ChikoritaTheRobloxian's Vandalism Scale, is a measure of the strength of vandalism, developed by ChikoritaTheRobloxian in collaboration with nobody, and presented in a landmark 2024 article of the same name.
Vandalism Magnitudes
The vandalism magnitude of an vandalism event is determined from the logarithm in base 10 of the number of bytes removed or added by suspected vandalizers plus the logarithm in base 10 of the number of suspected vandalizers. The definition of a suspected vandalizer is that the vandalizer must be blocked or banned from the encyclopedia.
Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in the number of bytes removed or added by suspected vandalizers, a tenfold increase in the number of suspected vandalizers, or some of both. Each increase of 0.3 corresponds to approximately a doubling of the number of bytes removed or added by suspected vandalizers, a doubling of the number of suspected vandalizers, or some of both.
Events with magnitudes greater than 4.5 are said to be strong enough to warrant the suspected vandalizers from being speedily banned on an encyclopedia with no blocks or warnings, according to ChikoritaTheRobloxian.
The following describes the typical effects of earthquakes of various magnitudes near the epicenter.
| Magnitude | Description | Full Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0-0.9 | Nano | The number of bytes removed or added is 1-10. |
| 1.0-1.9 | Micro | The number of bytes removed or added is 10-100. |
| 2.0-2.9 | Minor | The number of bytes removed or added is 100-1000. For comparison, this is equivalent to deleting a tweet. |
| 3.0-3.9 | Slight | The number of kilobytes removed or added is 1-10. For comparison, this is equivalent to deleting ten tweets. |
| 4.0-4.4 | Light | The number of kilobytes removed or added is 10-32. For comparison, this is equivalent to blanking a very long page or two or turning a page or two into a very long page or two. |
| 4.5-4.9 | Bannable | The number of kilobytes removed or added is 32-100. For comparison, this is equivalent to blanking 3-8 very long pages. |
| 5.0-5.9 | Bannable Class Alpha | The number of kilobytes removed or added is 100-1000. For comparison, this is equivalent to blanking 9-83 very long pages. |
| 6.0-6.9 | Bannable Class Beta | The number of megabytes removed or added is 1-10. For comparison, this is equivalent to blanking 84-833 very long pages. (Also on par with Jk8374's most destructive edit) |
| 7.0-7.9 | Bannable Class Gamma | The number of megabytes removed or added is 10-100. For comparison, this is equivalent to blanking 833-8333 very long pages. |
| 8.0+ | NUKE | The number of megabytes removed or added is 100-1,000 (a gigabyte). For comparison, this is equivalent to blanking the entire Robloxiapedia as is. |
Development
It is unknown how the scale was developed, but experts pinpoint a source of inspiration that it most likely was derived from the existing Richter scale.