Quote Originally Posted by CTMilller View Post
I can understand the frustration, MT, and you’re absolutely right about the endless, mind-numbingly dull repetition.

However my take is that Gru is either incapable of engaging coherently with others, at least in written communication, or he is on a lengthy wind-up which gives him some kind of weird satisfaction.

Whichever it is, any form of engagement with him will not be fruitful. If he has difficulty in participating in normal give-and-take exchanges, any attempt to change him will fall on deaf ears. He will simply keep bashing away with the only approach he knows. If he’s on a wind-up then, of course, your irritation is music to his ears…

Simply ignoring what is being repeated endlessly is probably the best approach, in my view. It’s pretty harmless and, if it’s a wind-up, he’s likely to get bored and stop if he’s not hooking anybody.

I don’t think it would be wise to censor his posts unless they transgress the site’s ground rules (and, if they do transgress the rules, CAM should presumably give a warning and ban Gru if he continues.) Being boringly repetitive doesn’t sound like a punishable offence, however.
All good points CT and just for everyone's information, for a couple of days we did try removing any repetitive posts but that becomes a logistical nightmare when other posters have replied to his posts (without using the Reply With Quote) as all of a sudden their posts are left dangling without any basis. When we then removed them to tidy up we started getting questions around "Why was my post deleted". People using their own 'mental delete' (i.e. ignore) is a much easier solution.