User blog comment:Sannse/You and Your Socks/@comment-24258073-20160317084602

Sock-puppetry is okay when — There is no local wiki policy that prohibits the use of alternate accounts. It isn't used in bad faith, or for illegitimate purposes. The community is aware that the account is a sock-puppet account. And the majority of the community is okay with it.

Sock-puppetry is not okay when — It is used for evading blocks. There is a local wiki policy that prohibits the use of alternate accounts. It is used in bad faith, or for illegitimate purposes. The community is not aware that the account is a sock-puppet account. And the majority of the community would not be okay with it if they ever found out that the user was using another account on the said wiki.