Thread:Antvasima/@comment-29403514-20200619214100

I'm wanting to ask why my ban was as long as it was.

Yes, I won't deny that ExtremeArcanine is my older account. However, it was never a sockpuppet by intent. It was actually my first account on FANDOM before I made this one. The reason I even made another account afterward was because of some private stuff that happened in which I deleted my ExtremeArcanine social media outlets. I took on this name because it reflected my current Google+ name and what I wanted to be known by.

I'd like to say that description is exaggerated first of all:

"Found using alt: ExtremeArcanine (67 edits in important threads to help himself.)"

- AKM's block

You can check the contributions on my account to verify what I'm going to say here. I counted up and 17 of my edits came from Message Wall questions, which were stated in the original thread to mostly be harmless if anything. The amount: Two on Mado's wall, three on Woki's wall, one on my wall, two on Cal's wall, another two on Cal's wall, one on Sir Ovens' wall, one on J-Man's wall, one on Nia's wall, one on Executor's wall, two on Reppuzan's wall, and then yet another on Cal's wall. I mostly asked questions on the walls back then though because I was insecure about looking dumb about asking these kinds of things, so I just wanted to clarify there was no malintent. Furthermore, these aren't important threads and do not fit the description of my ban. That's about ~25% of my edits as well and would reduce it down to 50.

Going further down the list, 20 of the other edits I did weren't on VS Threads or CRTs, to begin with. For the amount: I asked a question about what happened to 2-A Digimon on the "Top 5 Strongest thread" for one edit. I asked a question on tiering for one edit, a question of scans for Saint Seiya resistances for one edit, a question about why Time Skip had universal range for two edits, a question about Regen for one edit, a question of Solaris' abilities for one edit, a question about Sonic's Time Travel for one edit, six edits on a calc request thread, and six edits on another calc request thread.

One of these is literally just so idk how that'd be helping me in any threads either. We're now down to like 29 edits now that were on both CRTs or VS Threads. That's literally over half of my edits just being things that weren't significant at all. I feel like this alone would warrant a change in description for the ban.

I only found four threads where I openly supported myself. I have three others where I commented on both accounts, but one was just asking Matt why something was wank, another was just offering up other options rather than agreeing with me, and another just had me clarify on something someone said.

The ones I openly did do so on though were Sally vs Arceus (January 22, 2020) for one edit, the Pillar Men additions (May 1, 2018) for three edits, the Immortality Addition (April 25, 2018) for Arceus for two edits, and the Enerjak Soul Manipulation addition (February 25, 2018) for two edits.

This means only 8 of my edits were in direct support of myself (7 more honestly because one of those just said I needed to mod to move the board). That's less than 15% of my edits. I'd like to note that three of these instances are over two years ago as well. I think they should hardly apply honestly given such a massive gap. As for the one that happened very early this year, this is because I was being advised to comment on that thread. This was linked to a group place I was in, which is why there were actually a lot of people coming in to FRA on that thread. I did that very impulsively, and I apologize for that.

I will say though that I'm sorry that I did use my account like that period instead of just using my main. However, I'd like to think the fact that I've only had 10 edits in the last two years, eight of which had nothing to do with CRTs or VS Threads (most were just questions) would mean something because I'm not retroactively using that account anymore to keep supporting myself. The last edit, like almost half a year ago, was the only time I had done it in which you might consider recently.

I think this should honestly bump it down to like maybe a week at best. I've stopped doing this with only one case in the past TWO years, barely any of the edits on that account were in support of me unlike what the description says of the block, and I'd like to think I've tried my best to actually contribute to the site rather than those old tactics such as my contributions to the Timeless Void debate where I respectfully debated and tried to help with a wiki-wide impact thread. I don't have the edit counts of M3X or Oblivion where they were said to be productive, but I try to help out when I come on and have moved passed that.

I'm sorry for making this so long Ant and for being somewhat passive aggressive, but I felt the need to make my case because I had my account name broadcasted to thousands of editors over a description that wasn't all that true.

Thank you for reading and have a good day, - Ploz 