We have had at least two full-time, Russophilic professional trolls pushing dezinformatsiya on this community going back to Shaggy days and they are incredibly toxic to this community. GRUHorn = Immaculate Vibes/Bravo/Caponata DSA = Fozz/Donkey Cigars/likely bangkok currently.
We've crowd sourced them dozens of times and they come back immediately, spreading dezinformatsiya with the exact same posting style and shitting up discourse all across the board. Sometimes, they come back with a new sock, sometimes it's an old username that they've cultivated. They often start using a new account while still using the old one.
As posters, we can only do so much and can only do it so fast. It can take us weeks to crowd source them, while it takes them minutes to grab a new account using a VPN and resume trolling.
There is an understandable resistance in this community to owners/mods banning posters still lingering from the HF/blinking envelope days, but professional trolls are using that to poison our community.
One of the only rules here is no trolling. You own this place, just fucking ban him and then ban everyone of his subsequent usernames when he pulls the same bullshit.
Instead, the board crowd sourced GRUHorn/Caponata a week or so ago. Someone gave him a shitload of rep points and brought him back to continue spreading more dezinformatsiya.
We need backup from the site ownership/mods if y'all want a place free of Russian trolling.