Originally Posted by
stef
Corrie-dear, your little friend there can simply register under a different name, using a different email address and, if I were to block the IP, a different IP address. Real trolls and other game-players generally already have several little selves already. Their sport is playing with people who allow it. Some have "straight" identities that they use to build their reputation, asking and answering their own questions and giving credit for things working and etc.
Just like in the best parts of the rest of the world, the community polices itself and very little actual policing is done by the police -- you live in a decent place (or not) because you are surrounded with decent folk. And probably about the shittiest place in the world for decent folk is a place where the police (or military) are actually stomping things down, because in a place like that, the decent folk get stomped.
When you stop giving these people what they want, they will look for more amusing targets, but the solution is not letting yourself be run off or suggesting that we become one of the police-state boards you can find on other sites - you won't get that, because I'm not interested in deciding which of you is acting with malice and which are merely stupid and lazy, and quite frankly it is often a tossup. Also, please note a good sense of humour and a bit of perspective will make the internet - and the rest of life - a lot more fun.