When one spammer leaves, another immediately arrives to fill the void.
This is the way of the Web.
That’s Numberwang!
Passes the mantle to Hel
And beyond
I knew you were spiritual.
Duality, you better eat them vittles boy.
Lol no you are much better at it than I am. 
I believe that Hel has been permanently banned, and justifiably so. Who will take up his mantle? Who will fill the void until he comes back under a different name? Perhaps somebody who will do it for the pure joy of it, not because of alcohol addiction, and will be able to set appropriate limits.
I’ll consider resurfacing some of my old ridiculously inauthentic threads or even create some new, but I don’t think my heart will be in it for long.
or, taking ILP as a mirror of our (my anyway) mind, perhaps some patterns will stop and not simply recycle.