… or forced to take-on un-related work and afraid of discouraging newbies.

joy. Wasn’t trying to engage with you, but I’ll live. I better be one of the bumbling villians, dammit.

You called him a troll. By that definition, he likes your attention. The choices are feed the troll and live with, maybe learn to enjoy the resulting walls of text, or Block them.

Sorry to remind you, there is no in-between. Even if he had some sort of aneurism/epiphany and suddenly wanted to break character to do things more to your liking, he would do so under a new username, or be laughed back into the role everyone has come to expect. Been There Done That.

1. You’re missing out, unless the concept isn’t your thing after all.

2. Your contempt for an account you cannot be bothered to block is highly amusing.