User blog comment:Sannse/You and Your Socks/@comment-452-20160321001659

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet) "A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception."

By definition, all of the uses in the "Some good reasons" list are not "sockpuppets".

Referring to all alternate accounts as "sockpuppets" is as incorrect as referring to all people who have an opposing opinion as a "troll".

By misusing the term "sockpuppet" in this blog, you are encouraging all users of Wikia to misuse the term. Staff blogs should educate and clarify misused terms instead of perpetuating their misuse.

If it is not your goal to redefine the term "sockpuppet" and "brand" all alternate accounts as "sockpuppets", then you should revise your post to only use the term "sockpuppets" to refer to behaviours which are regarded as "misuse" of alternate accounts, and simply use "alternate accounts" (or similar) to refer to anything which is, by your own admission, "good reasons".

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry uses the term sockpuppets correctly, and primarily uses the term "alternative account" in the "Legitimate uses" section.

Additionally, creating an account named User454 in order to contact an admin about a fraudulent ban placed on the account named User452 is not "sockpuppeting", so long as it's made clear that both accounts are held by the same person. Whether or not a local admin chooses to allow someone to use an declared alternate account to discuss a block is up to them, but it is, by definition, not "sockpuppeting".

Last time I checked, the default block notice says "You may contact (username) or one of the other administrators to discuss the block.", which is explicit permission to contact them, without any instructions about how to do so.

The most obvious way to achieve the thing you have been given explicit permission to do is to create an alternate account. Inexperienced users may not even realise it's possible to comment without an account. (Although even if my IP were not blocked, it would be a cold day in hell when I deliberately exposed my IP - even only the IP of my proxy - especially when there's a hostile admin involved.)

There's absolutely nothing in the block notice about contacting them on another wiki, such as Community Central. When I was blocked, I had no idea Community Central even existed, and so I created the user454 account. Luckily, the admin I was contacting about my fraudulent block was a reasonable person, who understood that creating another account is not inherently "misuse".

I personally think it's strange that sockpuppeting is being condemned while meatpuppeting is simultaneously allowed.

To me, enticing people on one wiki to post their repeat your opinion on a wiki they've never edited is just as bad as worse than sockpuppeting.