(April 8, 2016 at 7:26 pm)Stimbo Wrote: And when did you last shower?
Seriously, though, I have an example of the kind of toxicity we're talking about. Some years ago over at the erstwhile JesusNeverExisted forum, we had a pretty unpleasant troll by name of Troy Brooks (aka Churchwork, Worker for the Church, Friend, A Friend, Parture and many, many other identities that may get him past the ban radar). He is the distillation of every lunatic we have ever had around here, theist or otherwise. After an eternity of his insane ramblings - JNE was even more resistant to permabans than we are - his entire post output consisted of spamming the same massively ranting essays multiple times, in multiple threads, across multiple boards and over many weeks. He polluted the entire forum into being his own personal vomit pile. We had people dreading to log in and others saying they were leaving, all due to the misbehaviour of one member.
As far as I'm concerned, that is the minimum standard for invoking the nuke option, and I for one wouldn't even consider it for anything less.
Wouldn't the nuke option then be unnecessary because he was already violating rules?