Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5578690-20140209174700/@comment-366087-20140210065203

Thing is, Wikia does not have a policy against sockpuppetry and alternative accounts. Only in how they are used, which should not be for troublemaking and evading bans.

There are several valid reasons to have alternate/sock accounts, or at least multiple accounts sharing an IP. For example my household includes my husband, 6 children, my sister, *her* 3 kids, my sis-in-law, and a couple fosters. All having to share computers and home network. Were even half of them to have accounts active at the same time imagine how that would look to a Checkuser. Or some local admins not believing my IRL sister is *not* me. And on Wikipedia it is actually encouraged for prolific editors to button up look-alike usernames as prevention for someone else making trouble with them. I have control of six variations on my username there.

Point is, how socks are viewed and dealt with at individual wikis is pretty much up to them locally. It is not a Wikia issue.

Really, it is better to banhammer nails as they stand out instead of trying to glue them all down before hand. Less chance of someone innocent inheriting an IP block.

But then, that's the modus as *I* operandi… YMMV