Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25855974-20160806034121/@comment-28478783-20160809023146

I still back the programming option because it still allows select individuals to carry out their operations through alternate accounts and from multiple computer locations, but keeps regular users from socking. It may be tedious to have certain accounts and addresses approved, but it can be used to protect certain wikis where the problem is insane, so that on those that require only one account (like the MCPE wiki I edit) can simply just have a person use one account and defend effectively against socks, while wikis that don't have this in place can simply have the settings on the program enabling users to have multiple accounts. I honestly think this is a good way to go because it still gives Bureaucrats/admins of their own wikis the freedom to choose how they handle alternate accounts.

And about the Sockpuppet trap-

There is no real way to help a innocent person who violates placed rules in order to try and voice their opinions in other accounts. Admins have the option to prevent an individual from editing their own message wall, and I am sure that if the blocked individual might not have known about this. From what I have seen, unless the sysop is a special case, they won't prevent message wall editing unless the user has proven to use it to shout insults or fill it with profanity/inappropriate content.