I disagree, a short ban to get his attention might do some good. As it might "a handful of our most blatant trolls". If he continues in the same vein, despite being before the arbitration committee, eventually a consensus will develop that we are well rid of him.
Fred.
From: fabiform fabiform_wikipedian@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:17:58 -0800 (PST) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Uncle Ed reads Irismeister the riot act
But trolling on wikipedia isn't enough of a reason to ban someone, I discover, otherwise we'd have banned a handful of our most blatant trolls a long time ago.