Thread:AKM sama/@comment-29403514-20200620012304

So I was told by Antvasima to message you on the matter because I left a message regarding this. I'm posting this to you and editing it to be more direct considering you issued it.

First of all, ExtremeArcanine wasn't really an alt of mine. That was my first account with Fandom that I registered back in early 2016. The reason I made this account though was because of some private drama that resulted in me deleting most of my outlets associated with that name. I made a new account to be associated with my current Google+ name at the time, PlozAlcachaz. The reason I preface this matter is to just establish it wasn't a sockpuppet just that I made for VS Battles.

I'd like to say that this description is very exaggerated as well:

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

- Your block description

I presume you took my edit count and assumed that all of my edits were to help myself. Well, I've come to refute this notion because it's fundamentally wrong. You can recheck the account contributions if you really want to go over what I'm saying.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand, 17 of my edits were Message Wall-based. And according to the actual thread, this just resulted in warnings mostly and were harmless. For the amounts of edits: two edits on Mado's wall, three edits on Woki's wall, one edit on my wall, five edits on Cal's wall overall, one edit on Sir Ovens' wall, one edit on J-Man's wall, one edit on Nia's wall, one edit on Executor's Wall, and two edits on Repuzzan's wall. I asked a lot of these questions back at a point I felt insecure about giving the impression I wasn't knowledgeable, so I want to clear up any idea of 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 about 2-A Digimon's placement for the Top 5 Strongest Characters for one edit, a Tiering Question for one edit, scans for Saint Seiya resistances for one edit, a question on why Time Erasure had Universal range for two edits, a Regen question for one edit, a question about Solaris' abilities for one edit, a question about Sonic's Time Travel for one edit, questions for a calc for six edits, and questions for another calc for six edits.

One of the things I even got marked for. The ones that were just questions should be on the same practical level as the message wall edits as they were harmless and didn't influence anything about profiles. That means there were only 29 edits that were on VS Threads and Content Revisions. 29 is a huge difference from 67, that means effectively over half of my edits were labeled as trying to support myself on important threads when that's false. But even then, not all of those threads I commented on were ones that I used to back myself up on. Most of those were solo actually and from my count, there are 21 - 22 (Depends on if you considering saying "mod please move this to a CRT board please" helping me) edits that don't receive my backing.

I only found four notable threads where I openly supported myself with the account. I have three others where I was on the same one, but one of them was literally just asking why Matt thought something was wank, another was just offering alternatives and didn't have it agreeing with me, and one of them was just me clarifying on something someone said. As to why I responded to myself on the secondary thread, it was to gain more traction. I did so back then because a lot of the threads I made didn't end up really completing or gaining traction without a push. So I did it more for bumping the attention if that makes sense.

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 Creation Trio Immortality Addition (April 25, 2018) for Arceus for two edits, and the Enerjak Soul Manipulation addition (February 25, 2018) for two edits.

Only eight of those edits were in direct support of myself (7 if you don't count the request to move it to another board to a mod). That's less than 15% of my edits. Heck, three of those four threads were literally over two years ago. I don't really think that's much of a fair thing to punish over with such a massive gap in time. As for the one that occurred about half a year ago, that came from me acting on impulse, and I apologize for that. I was in a group that was linked the thread, which is why there were so many FRAs on Sally vs Arceus that you could see.

I will apologize as well for using my account like that instead of just using my main. However, I'd like to think the fact I've only had 10 edits in the last two years of that account where eight of the edits had nothing to do with CRTs and VS Threads (and only one being in direct support which I already admitted came from an impulsive decision) would show that I've not been using the account like that anymore. The last edit, like almost half a year ago, was the only time I had done it in which you might consider recently.

I believe I've made a case as to why block should be shortened to like a week at the maximum if not a complete removal but with a warning to not do it again. From the description I was banned with, I've only done that once in the past two years. A very small percentage of those edits actually fit that description. I've tried my best to contribute to the site in an honest manner such as when I did a respectful conduct of debate in the Timeless Void Thread, a wiki-wide revision. If my attitude toward the site was genuinely how the description implied, I don't see why I wouldn't have commented the same way and others more frequently. I don't have the rep of someone like M3X or Oblivion where people view me as popular and productive, but I try to help out when I come on and have moved passed that. My point is that I largely feel I've made a strong case on the matter.

I promise with my word that I won't use any other accounts on the wiki passed my declaration. I apologize that this was long and somewhat passive aggressive, but I felt I had to make this case because I had my name bismerched to thousands of editors with something that wasn't a completely true description. At the very least, I ask that you change this description to fit more accurately the number of edits that were in direct support.

Thank you for reading this though AKM and have a good day,

- Ploz 