Ed-
you're probably right. Plautus is just a misguided individual. All this calling other users "dumb motherfuckers" and "fucking ignorant assholes" has to be expected from a confused newbie. After all you yourself once created a "Fucking asshole" account to make a point, remember?
Surely it is acceptable to lose 10 devoted, creative Wikipedians if we can keep a single crackpot around. I should really stop being so judgmental and leave the important decisions to the people who got their priorities straight, instead of looking at silly things like polls and hard evidence.
If Ed believes that an individual is reformable, then we need to all sit back and let the spirit of Sun Myung Moon work through him. I can't wait to see you do your magic, Ed!
I have just one condition.
If this whole thing blows in your face, I want you to take full responsibility for it. That means that I want you to go through every single page Plautus satire edited in the last few days, to take diffs of these edits and fix them if necessary. That includes erased comments on talk pages, something he is very fond of.
How about it, Ed? Do you want the whole community to share your faith, or are you ready to fix things up if that faith turns out to be mistaken?
Regards,
Erik