[WikiEN-l] Adam/Lir/Vera Cruz/Susan Mason/Dietary Fiber back as new user

Fri Apr 25 15:48:45 UTC 2003

A growing number of people have reached the conclusion that a new user, 
Shino Baku, is the multiple banned user Adam/Bridget/Lir/Vera Cruz/Susan 
Mason/Dietary Fiber. Shino's edit pattern is similar to Adam's. Shino's tone 
(start reasonable, then become more extreme, making increasingly ludicrous 
assertions) is the same. But when last night Shino put a message on 172's 
talk page, it immediately rang worrying bells for users. Susan Mason used to 
wait until a row had died down and was almost over. Then a message would be 
sent to a user, always written in the first person singular, re-igniting the 
row by stating categorically something which even the person who first made 
the statement had backed off from or abandoned. Shino did EXACTLY THAT last 
night, almost word for word in the way Susan Mason always did. Take out last 
night's assertion from the sentence and you could slot in any of 
Lir/VC/SM/DF's past arguments into the space in the sentence without 
changing a thing. The whole thing is eerily reminiscent of past conflicts, 
past approaches and past sentences used. A couple of people saw the message 
on 172's talk page and immediately and independently reached the same 
conclusion as to who had wrote it. And when it was mentioned around, a 
number of people who had 'feelings' about Shino immediately said that 
looking back on Shino's actions, it was blatently obvious who Shino really 
is. Either he is 7th reincarnation of Adam, or he has an extraordinary 
likeness that is spooky.

What is the policy towards MULTIPLE-banned users who keep coming back and 
repeating the same behaviour over and over again? Those who remember Adam's 
past antics know that while some of his identities behaved somewhat better 
than others, each one in turn started OK, then became worse and worse every 
day until each in turn had to be kicked out, only to be replaced by the next 
member of the Adam Family. Should Jimbo leave a note on Shino's page warning 
that if they are Adam, they had better behave differently to past versions 
or else they will be banned. Or as a multiple banned user who has not 
approached Jimbo to sort out the situation but just keeps coming back, 
should they be banned immediately?

JT.

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