Thread:AdamISAWESOME/@comment-961279-20151022160256/@comment-961279-20151023021701

Without meeting him in person, we won't know if it's some kind of condition that makes him unable to understand what he is doing, or if it's just a simple case of someone doing it because they can. In essence, deciding to be a jerk.

Regardless, the effect is that it's reached the "boy who cried wolf" point. He made some edits that appeared to be okay on a wiki I'm an admin on, but because he was doing it with yet another sockpuppet account and because he also used another account on a different wiki that hadn't been globally blocked, he got a permanent block and will get that each time he shows up, even if the new edits appear to be valid.

In terms of his user names, he doesn't have much imagination, but in a couple of cases, he specifically identified that he was back with a new account. I've identified three different patterns in his user name. I can probably detect him again in the future.

Finally, in regards to the amount of time he's spent doing this, I know of a different person who was deliberately committing vandalism that kept at it for about the same length. Couple dozen accounts with not that much in common between the names and a similar amount of IP addresses. He started to get a bit perturbed that his accounts kept getting shut down so fast and tried to get me riled up, to no avail. He created a few wikis during this time and lost admin access to them when the accounts were blocked. His own actions made it easier each time, to where I could almost do a copy and paste when turning in a new report.

He seemed to finally give it up after two years and stayed on his own wiki. Even though what he was putting there was the same kinds of things he used to vandalize wikis, it was okay because it was his own wiki. That lasted about six months and then he couldn't resist going out to other wikis to start vandalizing them again. Now that account is blocked and he's stuck editing as an anonymous editor there.

Caidin will be a problem for a while, but he likely will give up. Haven't seen any of them yet that have the commitment to stick with it, including the person I just mentioned, and even when they were projecting an attitude of "I'm an unstoppable vandal and you should be afraid of me". We clean up the mess without making too big of a fuss over it and it stops being fun for them and they give up.