On 8 Nov 2007 09:38:35 +1100, "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
- Once a person with sufficient wisdom and
authority has deemed that a person is a troll, THEY ARE A TROLL. No more time should be wasted on them.
That sounds a lot like the Orwellian "Unperson", or Scientology "Suppressive Person", concepts, and can be really unfair to people who are unjustly labeled this way. Didn't an early version of WP:NPA specifically say that labeling somebody a "troll" was an impermissible personal attack? The Wikipedia culture has changed since then, and not necessarily for the better.