Thread:FishTank/@comment-3236835-20160504181234

Hello Isaac, glad to make your acquaintance.

First of all, let me start by thanking you for all your help in updating our infoboxes in the Dark Souls Wiki, I really appreciate it. Let me introduce myself, I am LaVey and I was recently named administrator in such wikia (don't mind my profile, though. ¬_¬')

The matter that brings me here is a serious issue we are having with a "sock puppeteer" and what some people call a "spam troll" that frequently invades our chat room. For what I understand, he has been doing these kinds of acts acts for several weeks and maybe even months. Additionally, for what I have heard him say, he has been doing this in several other wikias as well.

I doesn't matter if we ban him indefinitely from chat, he just creates another "sock" and enters again. I've taken the measure of blocking the actual accounts he creates to block his IP and that seems to stop him for a while, but he always manages to return. It had been nothing but a little annoyance so far, but now he is actually writing threatening messages on my wall and he seems to start taking things personal with me.

You can read one of these threatening messages here.

I asked for this position because I enjoy taking care of the technical and structural aspects of a wiki. I am also a bureaucrat in two other wikis as well. I usually don't hang in chats or make announcements to the community in any regard, so it has been a bit annoying for me having to stay in the chat room for long periods of time just to make sure everything is going well.

Some of his "socks" even adopt the name of real users in the wiki and somehow he has managed to make me block myself and even our bureaucrat, because sometimes when I block one of his accounts, it ends up pointing to a legitimate user and that's the one who gets blocked. Our bureaucrat believes that when a staff member bans him in chat, he tracks the own IP of the banner and then uses it on his next "sock"; that way, when the staff member bans or blocks it, they end up blocking themselves.

The user's name started as YoungAnarchy2, but since then, he has been using other accounts. I'm not completely sure they are all him, but by the way he operates and talks, I'm pretty much convinced they might be. Furthermore, there is an user with a similar name in this very wiki: YoungAnarchy, you may want to check it out too.

You can check the block log to see his attempts to create new accounts and how, in some instances, it was our own bureaucrat and I the ones who got blocked instead.

This is the list of accounts he appears to have been using:
 * YoungAnarchy2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
 * YoungAnarchyReturns
 * Qstlijku
 * A man, a plan, a canal: PANAMA!
 * DarkSoulsSuperFan, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10

IMPORTANT: If you are going to block permanently all of these accounts, please be very careful, as it seems some of them point to either my or Matsczon's accounts, and you may accidentally block us instead.

In fact, A man, a plan, a canal: PANAMA! and some others of these accounts have been already blocked across all of the Wikia network.

Here are some pictures of the first time I had to deal with him:
 * https://gyazo.com/9f5a0ae1255fcceed8c4a96e73f071b3
 * https://gyazo.com/058ef758c5e5769df610cb3760f6229d
 * https://gyazo.com/14946cca5dd75dea8ac5189dd9bd88e8
 * https://gyazo.com/47616849984a9047999d77e656cf6215
 * https://gyazo.com/99b27db4e9d62690eae8464f57b4fe52
 * https://gyazo.com/fdd8ca0b81756798aa23bed2347dd07c
 * https://gyazo.com/8c0cbb2b05caee7715b659df8151b538

...and things just got worse afterward that day.

Just do me a final favor, if you don't mind. Since I usually like to keep a low profile and don't feel comfortable when I'm put in the eye of everyone, please report all progress you have on this matter to our bureaucrat, Matsczon; he is far better for handling these kinds of situations than me.

Thank you very much for reading. I really hope you or any of your colleagues can help us in this matter. We are just a community of good friends who like to hang out together every day.

Regards and thank you again for your help with the infoboxes. Have a nice day! 