Wanton abuse of edit privileges detected [closed]

Question

This post was edited to add in a comment to the post. Clearly, the user has a high enough reputation that he/she should understand that this is unacceptable behavior, but did it anyway. (shudder)

What should be done?

• rollback the changes?
• manually rollback the changes, informing the editor that he/she "is a jerk" in the commit summary?
• refer the editor to the FAQ?
• inform the SO team of this user's problematic behavior?

If this user isn't stopped, he/she could edit comments into more posts!

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Oh, and:

Answer 1

We have taken corrective actions and banned the offending user, when he returns we will coach him and ensure he knows how to use the system correctly.

Thanks for alerting as to this problem.

_{Also, if anyone knows of any programming jobs out there please let me know. I may not have a job tomorrow.}

_{Also, this probably was done prior to the implementation of the commenting system}

Answer 2

Good catch! I actually recognize that user's name; I've seen him before, here on Meta. He posted this "question" just a few months ago that was actually only one of those "hey guys, just sharing some info" blog entries that doesn't actually ask anything. Looks like he didn't learn his lesson in his first three years of using the site. Jeff had to go in and fix that post personally (revision four)!

This Meta post is nice, but in light of this new information it's probably not enough. Yes, I did see waffles's answer, but it looks like the ban isn't working for some reason. I'm going to e-mail [email protected] directly, hopefully they'll be able to take additional steps. I will update this answer with the e-mail chain when possible.