Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25855974-20160806034121/@comment-25855974-20160809001149

Some users shouldn't be punished even harder with the use of making alternative accounts. When justifying a ban, users would still make an account not knowing that they will get themselves into even more trouble. And the VSP users can get away with anything.

I'll give a few examples with real life situations (partially which I made this thread).

One user made a wiki for the chatroom and making pages satirizing the community. He was globally banned because of vandalism, and he made an alternative account thinking the global block was a mistake or that wikia is "corrupt". Though he didn't read the Terms of Use fully, he understood the main points of the rules and didn't go as far as full-on vandalism. It would of been a better punishment if his wiki was deleted rather than the user. The other possible reasons he was banned was because he uses swears, which indicates the staff that he isn't the most polite. I think his swearing is used as a stereotype for himself to use to get popular in the community, but that backfired. He is now trapped in the sock account trap where he cannot appeal to staff to change his ban because of his actions.

Another user was banned for a week in chat. He made another account despite it being against the Terms of Use. He got another ban because the admins knew that he was bypassing a chat ban. His ban was extended. After a few more times it became a permanent block, which is when he started to appeal to his ban reasoning. The admins didn't like the user's actions and he remained blocked. The reason he was trying to come into chat was because he wanted to tell the mods that he made a mistake and he wanted to talk with them about the block. He remains permanently blocked because of the sock account trap.

A user was discovered to be a vandal in the wikia community. This user was banned for a different user, but this helped support the ban. This user kept making accounts until he was permanently banned, but he used VSP to bypass the IP Block. He remains either trying to come back as a normal user, ask to be unblocked, spam and troll the chat, or cause drama. This particular user continued to vandalize for more than 6 months, and it was the sock account trap that lead him to be blocked.

An admin was another admin on another wiki that allowed swearing. The reason he was globally blocked for 3 months was because of his profile page violating the terms of use. The wiki still needed a dedicated admin, so he made a new account to help them control the chat. A user caught his identity and reported to VSTF where his global block was changed to infinite because of the sock account trap.

A user was permanently blocked for being annoying to the wikia, and users agreed with this movement. He then made accounts just to troll the chat and spam out of anger. He was IP Blocked, but he soon discovered the VPS trick 3 months later and he continued to make accounts to vandalize.

These are some of many wikia stories. I would like to dig deeper into these stories where they support my claim. I bet I can get a few more stories like these in a few popular wikias.