Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5961377-20150328074918

So, I have a problem with one of our rules. Specifically, this one:


 * Do not own and use multiple accounts or impersonate other users.
 * This is known as sock puppetry, and is a serious offense.
 * Users that are caught doing this will have all of their accounts blocked indefinitely.

I don't think simply having a second or third account should be grounds for an infinite block. For sockpuppeting, it may be appropriate, but this is a different case altogether. This rarely happens, but there are people (such as Tails) who create a new account for other purposes, such as a name change.

Why should we block people who do this? They clearly stated who they were, and even linked their old user page. Other users also do this for reasons of converting one of the accounts to a bot account.

I propose we change this rule, since they seem completely unreasonable and has more or less deviated from the true version of abusing multiple accounts as defined by Wikia:

I would like to place a limit of two or three backup accounts, as long as the user involved does not invoke any form of deception or impersonation. We treat sockpuppets as before: infinite ban.

Thoughts?  