Forum:What is sockpuppetry

I am wondering what is it? Spikeynikey123 (talk) 11:21, December 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sockpuppet (Internet). Sockpuppeting is when you have more than one Wikia account, or when you reply as anon in a conversation that you are already participating in whilst logged in while pretending to be a different person. It's a form of deceptive conduct people use to try getting around bans, create false consensus or to just plain stuff ballots. Lunarity 11:53, December 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Simply having multiple accounts is not sockpuppetry - it is only sockpuppetry if you pretend your multiple accounts are different people. -452 19:05, December 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree! -User454 (talk) 19:06, December 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * Additionally, it is not against the Wikia Terms of Use to have multiple accounts, or even to engage in actual sockpuppetry. (Local wikis may create their own policies about it, of course.)
 * The Wikia TOU does say you're not allowed to "Attempt to impersonate another user or person", but so long as you - as your sockpuppet - do not actually "impersonate another user or person" you're quite within your rights to take part in a discussion using multiple accounts.  (Logging into a different account is not "impersonation", so long as I don't claim that User454 is not also my account.) -452  19:36, December 10, 2012 (UTC)