Rob wrote: First a confession and then a response. I visited his userpage yesterday with the intention of blocking him myself so as to save everyone else the trouble of having to worry about it. But he was already blocked. And like Theresa, I don't really find myself with enough energy to care one way or the other whether we should judge blatant insults and racism on another site as grounds for being banned from Wikipedia. But my response to this particular argument is that *at least in this particular case*, the odds of him doing anything which is 'unnoticed and uncorrected' is close to zero *in this account*. But the odds of him doing it under his next sockpuppet account is quite high. So, in this sense, and in this sense only, it is probably better to let him edit under this account, because in this way people can monitor it. Now, your other point: This is 100% valid and I agree completely. This is why I was going to ban him yesterday myself. But we have to think carefully here. Trolls work by baiting us. We should be very careful about taking that bait. Wouldn't it amuse them greatly for us to waste a huge amount of effort in blocking and fighting them. It's the war that they want to have, whereas for us it is just *sigh* tedious and stupid. What we should aim to do, then, is rob them of the fun they expect to have. I'm not 100% sure how to do that. --Jimbo