Hi Ged and Elen. I was pointed to the statement on Starcade's page yesterday, and it appeared to me that Starcade's colleagues/coworkers/whatever told him to quit editing Wikipedia since his block prevented other people at his IP address from editing, and they told him to post a statement on their behalf on his talk page announcing this. If that's the case, might autoblocking be counterproductive, as no one from that IP will be able to edit? (I don't know that my theory is true; it's entirely possible it's either a compromised account or he's just making the whole thing up.)