Re: My impression of Sam
However, I do enjoy flaming him and reading the flames of him ;-)
Yep, at the end of the day, I'm loathe to do anything as moderator, because the dynamics of something like this are complicated. There's a payoff for the participants if the keep on engaging a suspected troll, and it's not my job to decide whether they're right to do it.
From where I sit the interactions of the community produce a living "meta entity" which often tells me things that individuals can't. If I hear it give me a clear message I act on it. But most of the time, alas, it's like the American electorate, blown this way and that by momentary passions, speaking in tongues, fickle...I usually try and wait it out. This too shall pass.
--Robert