What I find interesting about this is that this seems to only be isolated to one person, presumebably Wario64. If we can find a way to just get him out, which may be hard to do due to such things like VPNs and proxies, I think 95% of this problem would be solved. The other 5% comes from the recent ad spam, whcich should be easy to solve.
I think you’re right. It’s unfortunate, since the forum is generally able to exist peacefully and mostly self-police. It works for the most part because of the relatively low traffic. But all this is exactly what this turdgobbler is exploiting. Assuming for a moment that Wario could eventually be permanently banned (he can’t) or that he would give up (this is probably all he has going in his life. He won’t), the site would still be wide open for the next little kid who wants to throw a tantrum.
On any given forum, even low-traffic ones, a certain level of trolling is to be expected. The fact that we don’t have more of it here is the part that I find exceptional, rather than Wario’s continued presence. Can you imagine how bad it would be if we were actually brigaded by a group? One user making tons of accounts is bad enough. We should have safeguards.