User blog comment:Ubersketch/Why should we care about Edwin?/@comment-37283460-20181028175344

The reason why you persistently fail is because you are so narrow-minded in your approach.

You think blocking is the only way to deal with the problem, when blocking has been proven to do nothing. You must think logically, and not constrain yourselves to such primitive methods of retaliation.

I'll get your puny brains thinking as to some solutions:


 * Appoint many more trusted people as admins and bureaucrats, the Japanese googology wiki has done this and as a result there's always someone there to deal with any problems (such as the GoogHAL-9000 accounts).
 * Make as fact a period of 3 to 6 months during which no new users may join the wiki whatsoever, no matter their edits on other wikis. Stick to this.
 * Reason with this "Edwin" person and strike a deal with them. Perhaps they would stop their socking if you permitted them to edit with a single account that is not to be blocked, provided it behaves well.

There are many more solutions, but this comment is far too small to contain them. I trust your meager supply of brain cells will be able to formulate more however.