Thread:Jr Mime/@comment-27516045-20191231233419/@comment-27516045-20200105131216

Okay, sorry to bug you again, but the Googology Wiki is still being harassed by a troll. This one isn't the simple vandalism attacks of the "Max Damage" accounts (which - thank goodness - have stopped), but rather of another troll who hasbeen harassing that wiki for going on two years now. (It's possible - even likely, IMHO - that said troll is also behind the "Max Damage" vandalism, but that really doesn't matter - a troll is a troll is a troll.)

This troll, for whatever reason, has been going after a particular user on the Googology Wiki (who has gone through several different accounts). He's harassed this user constantly, and even when said user tried to quit the wiki several times, the troll still mocked him by falsely claiming to be that user's newest account.

Just yesterday, the guy essentially tried to threaten that he had some kind of timed script that would go off on the 11th and make the wiki unusable - unless we DM'd a specific Discord account (that belonged to the guy he'd been harassing) and gave them an Amazon gift card. This isn't the first time he's threatened that the wiki will be destroyed - and in the past it's never amounted to anything, the guy just wants to create a mass panic and see how much chaos he can create.

I'd like to ask if there's anything that can be done, but this guy just WON'T STOP. He just keep creating one puppet after another, and while it's generally obvious if a given new account is one of his puppets, they don't follow any specific username pattern (other than being fairly long and every word commonly being capitalized, but it's not like we can block that particular username pattern). I think we tried an IP range block once, but I'm fairly sure the guy has a VPN or something so that an IP range block won't work.

Is there anything at all we can do, or do we just have to let the troll keep doing his thing?You'd think a troll would give up after this long (and nearly a thousand sock puppets), but you'd be wrong...