Barring some sort of ruling admin tools including blocks are not to be used as punishment per WPBLOCK Gale is doing this because she thinks nearly any use of a WPTROUTlike link is a personal attack which Ive already said I can understand and respect  Having the priviledge of admin tools doesnt change the status of an editor in the wikipedia community for example see WikipediaAdministratorsNo big deal This comment of Todds suggests that admin tools should be used as punishment along with a judgement that I have engaged in harassment httpenwikipediaorgwindexphptitleUsertalkFireflydiffoldid I recently pointed out that Firefly seemed to be making sport of harassing admins Fully support this block as I feel its long overdue     On the contrary this block like all blocks is not punitive Oddly this comment is not in Todds edit history but it is this dialogue which Ive copied from the ANI page         This user was discussed at WPWQA here  My initial attempt with the WQA was to induce Firefly to refrain from calling me a troll and other uncivil comments  He was warned about his commentary here here and here Of course there are all the attempts at calming down Firefly within the WQA  Yet he continues here and here  Please assume some good faith on my part  I ran across one of Fireflys articles this week which was going through an AfD here  Then I noticed several articles that were just not notable in my opinion which coincided with my desire to be more involved with the AfD process  In fact Firefly has started several articles that I did not AfD and thought were pretty useful though poorly written but thats an opinion  Since it would have seemed patronizing to make a remark on his better articles I didnt  I believe his personal attacks against me should stop and he should be blocked  I am most certainly not a troll  Im lots of things but continue to not assume good faith and calling me a troll is uncivil       Warned    Not to be picky Gwen but how many times does Firefly need to be warned  I see at least  possibly many more warnings yet heshe continues with the personal attacks      I understand Let me know on my talk page if it happens again ok     Eh you missed one because he removed it here    Since youre an admin and youve given him a warning Ive got to askhow many warnings does he get      Ooops  His attacks continue  So he continues to call me a troll pretty soon Im going to have to sit under a bridge      Once upon a time I pleaded with my parents  dancer sur le pont dAvignon They cringed way but did it for me anyway Argh I may never get over the shame of it Blocked for  hours personal attacks     Gwen beat me to it but not by much How many angels can dance on a pinhead No wait thats not right Anyway I hope this answers your questions OM Regards     I think this is a reasonable block since theres a whole submerged iceberg of poor behavior of which this is the tip Its possible that the situation could be remedied with a bit of education  Firefly is quicker to cite acronyms than he is to understand their meaning and hes abrasive   He seems to think that anyone making a value judgement is a troll when in fact the page says that calling someone else a troll constitutes a value judgement ten points for spotting the faulty leap here  it involves erroneous use of bracket substitution Anyone more ingenuous than me interested in working on this    Did he actually compare your comments to Mbeki  Im so flummoxed not a witty remark comes to my mind      Perhaps I should have blocked for  hours Ok I know Im flawed    Im shocked that this is his first block so a one day block is probably appropriate  But the list of his personal attacks far exceeds anyone Ive seen on here  Ive been going through his contributions over the past  or  months and the number of personal attacks couched in his links to various wikipolicy is amazing  Hopefully he gets this      Reply to MC  The faulty leap would be that I have friends  LOL      outdent I just have to say that I tried to settle things peacefully both in WQA and even on their Talk page but being told to drop it rather rather  rude shall I say BMW  I recently pointed out  that Firefly seemed to be making sport of harassing admins Fully support this block as I feel its long overdue     What Ive yet to see here or elsewhere is an explanation of why OrangeMarlin keeps nominating articles started by Firefly for deletion when these nominations are constantly found to be lacking in merit  Maybe Im missing something but this seems to be a prima facie case of WPSTALK and WPHARASS  Why is OM not being sanctioned for this behaviour