Thread:Blankvillager/@comment-45076562-20200823184401/@comment-961279-20200823215501

It looks like you closed it while I was typing a reply, so I'm going to put it here so both of you can benefit from it.

Villager, it's important to keep in mind that one of the goals vandals and trolls is to get attention. Whether it's getting people upset and panicking about what they do or just seeing people talk about them, both give them attention.

Previously when he'd say he's not MIDKOWITCH or claimed he didn't know who that was, it was because he was playing innocent to throw suspicion off himself. Because you started calling him a villain, he's now using that to get attention by baiting you into responding to him.

A key method of dealing with people like this is the Ignore portion of Wikipedia's "Revert, Block, Ignore" policy. It means you don't give them any more attention than you have to, and you don't make judgments or personal comments about them if you talk about them.


 * "You are a villain" and "You are a criminal" are judgments about his behavior.
 * "Or are you too deranged to know that's wrong?" is a judgment and personal comment about his behavior.

Now, compare that to some of the things I've said:
 * "He has been blocked from the Villains Wiki over a hundred times and keeps trying to get back in."
 * "He goes from wiki to wiki to find people he can trick to make edits for him."

Both are more factual, just stating what he's done without trying to draw any conclusions about why he's doing it. In the interest of full disclosure, my response to this message is a kind of parable but it's still referencing the facts of his behavior and the consequences of it.

Based on what I've seen this past year, he's going to keep trying to get into the Villains Wiki for a long time. Because part of the way he attempts to get back in is searching for new people to convince to make edits for him and going back to the same people he contacted before, it will be necessary to provide warnings to them about his behavior.

The warnings are also necessary because he has repeatedly demonstrated he will say whatever he needs to in order to get back to the Villains Wiki. This has included inventing relatives, saying he would commit suicide, misrepresenting his gender, impersonating other users and actresses, making statements so it looks like he's the victim, and violating Fandom's Terms of Use by asking for passwords so he could get into users' accounts.

Those warnings need to be as factual as possible to reduce how much benefit he gets by people talking about him. It can be hard to do when you're personally affected by what he's done, but you have to do it. Just stick to the facts and leave your feelings out of it. If you don't think you can do it, let me provide the warning. I learned "the only winning move is not to play" lesson a long time ago.

It is becoming more difficult for him to keep going. His accounts are starting to be globally blocked pretty quickly. Don't give him any more incentive to keep trying. Just as you should not let him goad you into reacting to what he says, don't say things to him that could goad him into continuing.