He did and still does seem concerned with his image here This is the the kind of flawed thinking that seems to govern a lot of sock masters they think if they create one blockevading sock that can manage not to get blocked for a while they have proven something Often these serial sockers dont understand how easy it is to catch them because they keep coming back to the same cntent and editing in the same style Sim was always caught on behavioral evidence as they learned a long time ago to use multiple computers to avoid checkuser You can see at the SPI from June that he went as far as creating yet another sock and claiming to be Ruff Ruffman himself rather absurd since as a cartoon dog Ruff doesnt really exist Why What was the underlying motivation I dont know perhaps a need to feel like they were part of something bigger than themselves something I also like about Wikipedia Unfortunately not everyone has something worthwile to contribute and some people just cant get along in an environment like this Simulation was originally blocked for disruptive editing two years ago If they had just waited a few months without socking and asked nicely to be given another chance it all could have gone in completely the other direction but they chose to evade the block dozens of times instead and now there is basically nothing they can do to win back the trust of the community