What marks Guy out as a very special flower, is the way he says shit like this as if he is the first person to ever think it.WMF legal contacting the ISP would not be effective. For $200 I can buy compete control of 10,000 computers with 10,000 IP addresses distributed among hundreds of ISPs, then use them as proxies to vandalize/troll Wikipedia. Even if WMF legal took action against each one as I used it, I would simply move on to the next -- a computer/IP that had never been disruptive before I bought control of it. See botnet. --Guy Macon (talk) 06:54, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
In typical fashion, it was a moronic interjection. It is implied in the context, namely a long term vandal targeting a specific area, that the WMF would only be taking action (contacting an ISP) if the data showed his attacks were confined to single ISP. And you would not know if the vandal has the capability of willingness to use a botnet, if the data showed he is not, unless or until you force him to make that choice. And if he does, there are of course other ways the WMF can combat botnet originated disruption of this form.
Macon says dumb shit like this all over Wikipedia. Nobody stops him. Why?
Well, three possibilities exist......
1. All Wikipedian Administrators are dumber than Macon (his crap is so ubiquitous, his life so devoid of demeaning without endlessly spewing his thoughts on Wikipedia, he cannot have escaped the attention of a single one of them)
2. Talking crap all over Wikipedia, is not considered disruptive to their mission.
3. Wikipedia Administrators just don't want the hassle of clamping down on someone this in love with the sound of their own voice, and this convinced they are always right
You can't say what Macon does is merely a necessary ingredient of ordinary debate, where someone saying saying something dumb is often a learning opportunity for all, themselves included. Macon simply isn't interested in what others think. He talks past people, and insults those who disagree with him.