https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/9946/kittensatplay
Apparently this user was banned for a month and is now back and trolling anyone who tries to help them. They will delete their questions after a short exchange of unprofessional comments.
As an aside, if anyone else was interested, there is a GreaseMonkey script for ignoring people on StackExchange. Could save some gray hairs anyways.
What to do about trolls and other miscreants? Flag their posts. The first few flags alert moderators; the accumulation of flags provides both an incentive for the mods to act as well as documentation to support their actions.
In response to a one-year suspension (which is rare on SE and unprecedented here on GIS) one user recently wrote back to the moderators to exclaim that
you improve by banning
[they meant "suspending," because although one year may be a long time on the Web, it is not banishment].
Yes, indeed, I think we can all agree the suspension was an improvement. The system works :-).
Repeated breach of protocol ID FAQ#etiquette detected. Beep zip beep. Initialize termination sequence.
To be honest, the best way to deal with those people is to ignore them. I would not dare spending my time with answering in any way. Besides, what do you expect of someone with such a user nick?
For the gray hair: Too late for me ;-)
Yes but if you ignore them, questions still pop up and stay there. How about: automatically remove questions from users with < 10 reputation, which have <= 0 vote, maybe less than that many views after 1 week?
