"Bad faith"

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Wowzers! This is the second time that this guy has referred to someone using a pseudonym as "a pseudonym." The first time was when he used it to mock me.

I still don't understand why this guy was permabanned, though. He seemed more persistant and adamant than a jerk to me.

Though he did constantly point out slight errors I would make when I was typing something and was tired. That was indeed annoying and grasp-at-strawsesque of him.

Still, either I'm missing something here or I'm just less easily offended / more optimistic than most people. I'm not sure which.

Tharthan (talk)14:55, 2 December 2013

This is definitely not the second time. He's done it at least a dozen times on Wiktionary alone, and lots more times on other wiki sites over the years.

CodeCat15:02, 2 December 2013

So is this just a case of too much WP:PA in his history? The reason I ask is that after taking a quick look through his history, I see that he created some pages, questioned the validity of some pages (as he did with one of mine here) and--in that particular case--actually helped spruce up the page and fix some errors that I myself had made when I initially wrote up most of that page. Additionally, from reading through this discussion, it seems that he was a strong advocate against OR, which (I thought, at least) was one of the big no-nos in the Wikimedia projects. Perhaps that only applies to Wikipedia?

In any case, I'm still unsure exactly why he was permabanned (his past blocks, perhaps?) Would you mind explaining? It's none of my business, I suppose, but I'm still unsure as to why he received such a harsh punishment.

Tharthan (talk)19:58, 2 December 2013

Talk:Srebrenica and User talk:129.125.102.126 would be a good start. That's the IP he used previously (while spouting the same "pseudonym" name calling) and that one was blocked too. So this is in fact his second ban in the past year. Also, in case you weren't aware yet, he's been permanently blocked from English and Dutch Wikipedia already, and I think he even got a global Wikimedia-wide block for his behaviour. So it's not like he came here with a clean slate, even if we did try to give him a chance. He just didn't seem interested in getting on anyone's good side. I don't think he's ever going to change, judging from the longevity and wide scale of his past abuses, so the block is a decision along the lines of "are we going to endure it forever, stop it here and now, or let him do it some more and block him later?"

CodeCat20:02, 2 December 2013

Wow! xD

While I know that those discussions must have been aggravating for you and the other parties involved, I hope you don't mind me saying that I had a blast reading them. Absolutely hillarious! =D

But yeah, I see where you are coming from with the block now. Thanks.

Tharthan (talk)01:08, 3 December 2013