User:TDC needs to be hard banned right away.
Recently, a well respected user called TDC an "obnoxious, immature, POV-pushing, insult-spewing" user. Of course, this isn't unusual on Wikipedia. But lately TDC's behavior has gotten far more alarming than what Wikipedia usually sees.
On 4/1, e.g., he posted this unforgivably offensive message on the talk page of a longtime user and admin, and earned himself a 24 hour period:
Now, I know you Marxist types dont believe in an afterlife and the like, but if I were to hold a seance and channel Marx's spirit through you, do you think you would try and suck your own dick. [[User:TDC|TDC]] 04:15, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:Slrubenstein&diff=3013952&oldid=3004687
After the 24 hours, TDC's behavior has gotten worse. To demonstrate this, I'll avoid telling a long, drawn out story, and instead refer to the relevant links and briefly state my conclusions . Since he isn't very well known among most mailing list readers (he's been trolling only a small number of articles), the links and talk page excerpts below will allow other users to examine this problem on their own.
IMO, his behavior is in league with the hard banned vandals. [[User:Kenneð]] (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:Kenne%F0&action=history), e.g., was banned in 8/03 for making rambling threats seemingly coming out of nowhere. TDC has been doing the same (my examples are placed below this paragraph). [[User:JoeM]] was banned for blatant POV trolling and vandalism (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JoeM/ban). TDC has been doing the same for months. [[User:Michael]] has been known to target specific users. Over the past week, TDC has been explicitly stating that he intends to do the same.
TDC user has been given multiple chances, aside from being allowed to return after the 24 hour ban. Also on 4/1, a poll was started on [[Talk:Fascism]]. An number of other users and I were hoping that since an overwhelming consensus of users disagreed with TDC's view of the way things are (as of now, twenty users have voted no; TDC is the lone yes vote), he'd get the message and start moderating his behavior. BTW, if anyone's interested, the results below are taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fascism ([[Talk:Fascism]]).
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===Yes===
[[User:TDC|TDC]] 05:09, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
===No=== #[[User:John Kenney|john]] 04:50, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Raul654|→Raul654]] 04:55, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Eloquence|—Eloquence]] 04:55, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Meelar|Meelar]] 04:56, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:AndyL|AndyL]] 05:13, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Danny|Danny]] 05:24, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) (in protest--I think voting on this is ridiculous) #[[User:Infrogmation|Infrogmation]] 05:26, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Mackensen|Mackensen]] 05:44, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:The Anome|The Anome]] 05:57, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Methylsoy|Methylsoy]] 06:54, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Jamesday|Jamesday]] 07:27, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Vardion|Vardion]] 08:51, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:172|172]] 12:39, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) (Ugh. The crap being pushed on this page grows more asinine by the day. Here's a better proposition to vote on: "Poll: Should TDC and other extreme POV pushers with strong opinions but little to no knowledge on the subject be banned from trolling this article." [[User:172|172]] 12:39, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Skatehorn|Skatehorn]] 16:49, 1 Apr 2004 (CEST) #[[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 17:13, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] 07:30, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Tillwe|till we *)]] 17:48, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC) (and agrees withh Danny) #[[User:G-Man|G-Man]] 19:27, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Slrubenstein|Slrubenstein]] 21:11, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC) #[[User:Hauser|Hauser]] 22:10, 3 Apr 2004 (NZEST) (Bloody pathetic, then again it's kinda ironic the fact that I am complaining about a emocratic insitution in a discussion about Fascism :P)
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However, his behavior has dramatically worsened. In his 04:58, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) edit to [[Talk:Karl Marx]], he started harassing a respected user because of his academic background. TDC wrote:
BTW, you are a bunch of soft-minded artsy morons, thats why you choose professions, like sociology, that have no demand or real value in society. [[User:TDC|TDC]] 04:58, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Karl_Marx&diff=3005125&oldid=3005118
As an aside, hating "sociologists" seems to be among his array of weird quirks. Roughly a month and a half earlier, he made roughly the same "sociologist" crack about me: "secondly what productive activity could a sociologist actually engage in? I mean, seriously?" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Sandinista&diff=2383169&oldid=2383143 BTW, just to give you an idea about how clueless the guy is, neither of us two "soft-minded artsy morons" are sociologists. My field is history. The same for the other user.
Later, Stevertigo and Fred Bauder placed TDC on the 24 hour ban, hoping that this would give him some time to cool off. The discussion of the ban is pasted below:
Now, I know you Marxist types dont believe in an afterlife and the like, but if I were to hold a seance and channel Marx's spirit through you, do you think you would try and suck your own dick. [[User:TDC|TDC]] 04:15, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) For your information, this sort of remark is unacceptable. [[User:Fred Bauder|Fred Bauder]] 19:51, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)
I agree - a day or two ban is in order. -[[User:Stevertigo|SV]][[User_talk:Stevertigo|(talk)]] 21:35, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) UPDATE!: Ban will last 24 hours. Please use this free time to meditate on your behaviour, and read up on your [[Wikipedia:Civility|wikicivics]]. -[[User:Stevertigo|SV]][[User_talk:Stevertigo|(talk)]] 21:46, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:TDC&dummy=1&diff=3030615&oldid=3012818 ([[User talk:TDC]])
TDC has been meditating on his behavior since then. Unfortunately, he's been drawing far worse conclusions. I wrote on my talk page:
I will go on the Marx page 10 times a day to undo any vandalsim you cause. Please dont make me write a script to do this automaticly. [[User:TDC|TDC]] 06:09, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:172&diff=0&oldid=3049678
Then, on his user page, he was even more charming. Here he effectively proclaims that he's a Sadist:
172, if that is indeed your ''real'' name, believe you me that you have met in TDC the biggest most stubborn prick on the face of planet earth, and I will not stop until your stomach churns with bile at the site of [TDC]. I dont feel that this is a waste of time, I get a great deal of satisfaction out of this.[[User:TDC|TDC]] 06:02, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:TDC&diff=0&oldid=3049556
TDC has contributed nothing to WP other than threats, insults, and the need to protect articles with which he's obsessed. After seeing the recent comments, I'm not sure if this guy isn't enough of a nutcase to start personally tracking down users whom he deems his enemies. He ought to be put on a hard ban right away, while he's accumulated only a small number of targets for venting his frustrations (anger, paranoia, whatever?). The longer he's on Wiki, the more users he'll start harassing and threatening. So, it's best to put him on a hard ban before this gets out of hand. -[[User:172]]
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