The Cunctator wrote:
I really don't think BFB should be banned. He's obstreperous and an aggressive editor, but I don't think he's malicious. I could be wrong about the maliciousness, but still, we need to get away from the idea we can ban away all our problems rather than working to fix them.
I reverted some of his redirects which ANthere wasn't happy with, and wrote quick stubs. He helped me with those, saying he had nothing against a stub for that article. I think he was trying to make "ghost links" go to something that was in the same subject area -- Anthere disagreed (and so do I).
I find his habit of signing in funny squiggles VERY irritating, and it certainly adds weight to the recent request to disable the nickname-signing feature. (I've been tempted to apply CommunityPressure and just go round changing his signature to his real username)