On 9/5/07, Vee vee.be.me@gmail.com wrote:
the fact is that he could come back if he wanted to and no one would be any the wiser if he didn't get up to the crap he did before. i don't get why banned users whine about being 'banned' when it's perfectly easy to come back and have no one notice provided you dont continue the same disruptive behaviour
But don't they usually? If user:foo is blocked/banned for doing "X" and comes back as user:bar and does "X" again, it will eventually lead to another block/ban. The only thing a sockpuppet accusation does is make the second block/ban happen quicker. Even if bar is not foo, the blocking is for doing "X".
The solution is simple. "Don't do X". An easy thing to do if said user is here to write an encyclopedia. Impossible if he's here to do "X".