Expertise I hope you re not suggesting I ve become the go to admin for topic bans Dreadful fate Either AN or ANI would work Theoretically community topic ban proposals are supposed to go on AN because they re not about one incident and because AN isn t archived as quickly But the preference for AN is becoming more and more a dead letter In practice proposals for topic bans are often put on ANI perhaps because it gets more traffic or perhaps sometimes because it s the only admin noticeboard the OP knows about However The user seems to have resigned themselves to consensus and is apparently on board with the DR being closed In such a situation you re never going to get a topic ban just because they re rude It s rather strange the way they ve been attacking you I agree but I think the best thing you can do is walk away I ve put a note on their page to urge them to disengage too talk