Over ~2 years of my watching him he's made very few changes to MO, which is pretty good proof of unwillingness to be reasonable. All the regular trolls at Conspiracies make more changes to MO with a few nudges than this guy has.
The admin is either unwilling or unable to prevent him from returning (an asymmetrical attack cannot be answered without greater risk to the innocent than they wish to permit). They could devote special resources to trapping his content faster, but I don't think they wish to engage that either as that could be troll-feeding. He's not one of the top 10 OpSec threats here. But concrete authority has its ways of working on the soul, and leaving the account active without discipline causes more indirect community strife than dealing with it consistently.
So talk to him when you see him, but recognize admin's carefully staked position on it too.
He has been unwilling to be reasonable how do you debate with that? Locking out is working.
Do you have any evidence of this? Have you tried different tactics?
You say that now, then when he comes back you'll be disproven (again).
I mean working overall in the scheme of things.
Over ~2 years of my watching him he's made very few changes to MO, which is pretty good proof of unwillingness to be reasonable. All the regular trolls at Conspiracies make more changes to MO with a few nudges than this guy has.
The admin is either unwilling or unable to prevent him from returning (an asymmetrical attack cannot be answered without greater risk to the innocent than they wish to permit). They could devote special resources to trapping his content faster, but I don't think they wish to engage that either as that could be troll-feeding. He's not one of the top 10 OpSec threats here. But concrete authority has its ways of working on the soul, and leaving the account active without discipline causes more indirect community strife than dealing with it consistently.
So talk to him when you see him, but recognize admin's carefully staked position on it too.