In the old days, I would have just personally blocked the troll on sight, and that would have been the end of that. One of the things that makes wikis work is precisely the ability of the community to tell people to knock off the nonsense or get blocked.
If you go back to the disastrous culture of unmoderated Usenet groups, you can see what happens if it is too difficult to block trolls from participation. What happens is that good people reach the end of their good humor and lash out. The social environment degrades to people screaming at each other and it becomes quite hard to tell the good people from the bad. If someone says that they "consider Wikipedia to be an intrinsically evil concept" then the solution is not to get emotional and lash out at them in anger, but to realize that '''telling''' them to fuck off is not nearly as satisfying as maintaining a good sense of humor while '''making''' them fuck off (with a permanent ban). We have better things to do!--[[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] ([[User talk:Jimbo Wales#top|talk]]) 12:00, 28 August 2012 (UTC) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=509589710&oldid=509588061]
