David Gerard said
The socks are blocked and so is the user (for glaring sock abuse for
policy-violating purposes and because we're still sorting out the mess).
Which isn't an entirely elegant solution providing a way forward, but does
stop the abusiveness for the moment.
The thing I find most frightening is that if the user had been just slightly
smarter in the way he had done things, he would have succeeded, his 13 man
sockpuppet army would have edited (and reverted) with impunity, and there
would have been no "technical evidence" against him. I think it's likely he
will still attempt this. If he doesn't others might.
I'd really like to see a decent wording for 'No
personal attacks, block
after warning' that would be objective enough to make it through a vote,
like the last one didn't.
Me too. I know of at least one good editor, who added high quality
technical (and non-political) material, but was not up to the rough and
tumble of edit wars and insults, who left permanently as a result of the
abusive atmosphere.
Jay.