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-29 Post author: Will_Newsome 02 June 2012 12:08AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 June 2012 03:31:15AM 11 points [-]

What would a mod do? I can create endless sockpuppets from endless proxies.

It takes you from being an established user associated with a real person that many of us have met in person to just a little vandalism to be ignored.

What makes Will_Newsome trollishness significant is that all else being equal a lot of us want to talk to Will_Newsome, which bipasses our better judgement and makes threads like this more disruptive than they otherwise would be.

Comment author: mwengler 02 June 2012 03:23:04PM 2 points [-]

Oh so he should be banned because he has established a reputation (sorry will, yes it would appear you have established credibility) and is now spending it on something you don't like.

Yogi Berra once said about a certain restaurant that nobody goes there anymore because it is too crowded. Ban the restaurant! Ban Yogi Berra!