Thread:Ollie231213/@comment-961279-20180109151810/@comment-258494-20180109172443

RRabbit42 wrote: A couple of months ago, I offered to help Ryoung122 clean up the messages being left here to intimidate and harass the members of this wiki. Ryoung122 didn't seem interested in my help and I was going to just let you guys fend for yourself, but I see this is still going on.

It's likely to keep going on for a very long time because the demand I see being repeated is to unblock the original account, which is out of your hands because it's a global block. But even if you had the ability to unblock that account, appeasement towards people who say "do what I want or you'll be sorry" never works.

So, I'll extend the offer again to assist your wiki with cleaning up the threats and harassment. What I will be able to bring to the cleanup efforts includes:
 * The cleanup is very fast and easy for me to implement.
 * It's more thorough than what can be done under a standard admin account. It's a true deletion of a Message Wall message, rather than just hiding it.
 * I can usually deal with situations like this without letting my emotions get the better of me, so anything that's said, even if it's a personal attack towards me, don't bother me.
 * Eight years of experience, as shown on my profile page. I became an admin on many of those wikis as a result of cleaning up vandalism, and adopted a few wikis to prevent further vandalism.
 * Once the main cleanup is done, I will continue to check the wiki every one or two days and clean up any new messages by this person.

Cleaning up the messages takes away a lot of the power this person has to harass and intimidate others. It also removes a lot of the attention they are wanting. It becomes a kind of "silent treatment". They can yell and make all the noise they want, but it will be gone fairly quickly and it will be like it never happened. Greetings,

I vehemently disagree with the false notion that I didn't seem interested in helping to stop the illegal threats coming mainly from just one individual in California. We do welcome efforts to stop this incessant trolling, and we would like it if, for example, the Gerontology Wiki settings for new users could be set so that they cannot edit until the account is verified. This troll has been attempting to use my e-mail address in his fake account registrations, but of course I'm not approving those attempts, so if we could block unverified users from editing, he would not be able to edit. I do know that Timothy McGuire, born June 20 1996, of Clearlake, CA is the person who is making these threats, including bomb threats, and I have called the police more than once. Further, this person claims to be an ex-army person with gun and exposives experience and is obviously someone with a severe mental disorder. He has threatened to harm others but also himself, and something needs to be done about this situation before it becomes more than just words on a website. However, for the sake of this Wikia, something needs to be done as well to block the troll, who has self-proclaimed himself as a paranoid schizophrenic sufferer.Ryoung122 (talk) 17:24, January 9, 2018 (UTC)