Thread:DarthKnah/@comment-4189499-20150901115805/@comment-4189499-20150902003940

I don't think 197 should be blocked just because he is (most likely) Spiders, but should rather be judged by his actions. If anything, it was because Spiders was Spiders and had a long history with DWA that he wasn't blocked while using his actual account. If this user oversteps the bounds, give them a week off regardless of who they are behind the IP.

It would be interesting to get Wikia to do an IP check on Spiders to see if he is actually 197 (and if he is also the same person as 41 from earlier). I'm not sure though what the rules are surrounding Check User, but it's worth asking. I'll shoot off a Special:Contact and see what they can do.

Really, I don't know how to stop the conflict between these users apart from saying "This has gone far enough. Any further reply will result in a block", and that will only last until the next conflict arises. I don't want to block people if we don't have to, especially not people who actively help in the mainspace as there are few enough of such users already, but if 197 is Spiders, then the conflict is unlikely to stop without further intervention. However, sometimes the serious threat of a block is all that's needed to get users in line if they continue causing disruptions, with a single day block to show you're serious if people still don't comply.

It would probably be best to not be in conflict for when the crowd comes in with Series 9, but that's still very much easier said than done. Well, we still have just over a fortnight to let this most recent battle die down, so we can hopefully avoid more drastic actions. Maybe we could just limit all discussions about the contents of the series to the Watercooler and insist that all other talk pages are solely for the suggestion and discussion of actual productive changes to pages on the wiki. By isolating the arguments to the Watercooler, at least they won't be interfering with content, and we might possibly get some more voices to weigh in their opinions to the discussions to prevent it from being a fist-fight between only those two users.