If we start digging old threads, I'm gonna have to be accountable for what I write. Uh-huh. I hereby retract my interrogative statement about Carl and Trump. Carl is unlikely to be wearing a wig, and in retrospect, is a fairly laid back moderator (with at most a slight obsession over trolls).
If it were me, berndtkhgsgmann would be preemptively banned. The ban would extend until the powers that be receive from him a public letter of apology, in his best prose or even in poem form. The letter would express his regret at claiming the superiority of hardbat over normal table tennis, played by normal people with two arms, two legs, two brain hemispheres and two sponges on their bat. It would actually express his regret for talking about hardbat at all, for attempting to maintain the old ways of hardbat in this modern era of ours, and acknowledge the dark influence of hardbat on the development of proper table tennis in the United States up to this day.
We would get to see the spark die in his eyes and that would be very enjoyable.