I believe that if you have democratic system, which I assume this is due to the voting process, then one man can not stall processes the way you describe. If that is possible, the system is flawed, not the people in it. You should then look over how you can tweak the administration process instead of what we are doing here.
In Italy there is a word for this: "ostruzionismo". When a party presents a new law, the opposition registers 5000 amendments to discuss in the Parliment, and they get 5 to 20 minutes of speech time for each amendment, effectively killing the law if the president doesn't shut them up.
The fact that people leave because of one member really reflect there ability to work with others, not Pauls. Or, as just mentioned, it's an administration issue.
The main difference is that an italian politician gets 15.000 euros per month, so he has no interest in leaving his/her chair, and quietly waits for the months/years of discussion to pass before the vote.
Here no one is paid, and it's just easier to leave the group and try to create a new standard by writing code instead of by defining an interface.
For this reason alone, any "obstructionist" should be silenced as soon as you discover the tactic.
So, we either put a hard limit of one message per day per person (effectively killing technical legitimate discussions), or we selectively and arbitrarily silence people (with possibly rising malcontent because on injustices and "too much power on someone's hand") or we deal with each case individually (like this case).
It's a tricky situation, and I personally never had problems with Paul, but I saw some of the obstructionisms in the past, and cannot ignore the 20 persons affected by his behaviour.
As for the thick skin, I had my part of "bullying" on the Internet in the past, and probably developed some kind of thick skin, but I am also conscious that this thick skin sometimes manifests as me being rude, often without even wanting it, because I am expecting the other sides to be rude, and putting up defenses before even receiving an attack.
For this reason alone I think "growing a thick skin" is the wrong thing to ask to a community: it generates barriers and makes discussions harder.
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