Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28894763-20160722173701/@comment-1757994-20160722180638

Windows 100 wrote: And what does abusing multiple accounts mean Usually it means using multiple accounts to evade a block or ban. If a person gets blocked, it's the person that is blocked, not the account.

It can also mean using multiple accounts to appear to be multiple people to distort some discussion on an issue decided by consensus. I'm not sure there's a reasonable example of that at Wikia for a global block, but it's certainly valid for individual wikis.