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.