Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-24264457-20180703161800

Okay so I have a few questions here. The first is, how long is someone considered a “new” user? Basically, how long before they can edit pages that are protected against “new/unregistered users”? Many popular pages have this level of protection due to frequent additions of blatantly false information by one user who’s gone through, like, 50 accounts (no exaggeration) over the past four years (again, not exaggerating). Yet, with some of their new accounts that are less than a day old they edit these pages. Meanwhile new users that have been around for a week or two that have good intentions still cannot edit the page.

And my other question, as an administrator or bureaucrat, is there a way to see if a user was disabled by user choice or by Fandom? Their contributions will say that they were disabled by one or the other, but is does not say which one. While this has not become an issue yet, hypothetically one accused of sockpuppetry could say that they disabled their account because they didn’t want it anymore and then changed their mind when in reality they got disabled globally by Fandom. A way to see which is the case would help prove their story true or false. 