 :::He did, and still does, seem concerned with his image here. This is the the kind of flawed thinking that seems to govern a lot of sock masters, they think if they create one block-evading sock that can manage not to get blocked for a while they have proven something. Often these serial sockers don't understand how easy it is to catch them because they keep coming back to the same cntent and editing in the same style. Sim12 was always caught on behavioral evidence as they learned a long time ago to use multiple computers to avoid checkuser. You can see at the SPI from June that he went as far as creating yet another sock and claiming to be Ruff Ruffman himself, rather absurd since as a cartoon dog Ruff doesn't really exist. Why? What was the underlying motivation? I don't know, perhaps a need to feel like they were part of something bigger than themselves, something I also like about Wikipedia. Unfortunately, not everyone has something worthwile to contribute, and some people just can't get along in an environment like this. Simulation12 was originally blocked for disruptive editing two years ago. If they had just waited a few months without socking and asked nicely to be given another chance, it all could have gone in completely the other direction, but they chose to evade the block dozens of times instead and now there is basically nothing they can do to win back the trust of the community.   