User blog comment:Sannse/You and Your Socks/@comment-27144096-20160318073554

I started using alts when this kid got banned for being a kid and even though I didn't ban him, he came at me with a vengence. He made all sorts of socks then Emailed a bcrat complaining about me or he came in the chat room and made all kinds of trouble. I would use a sock to chat so that we wouldn't get raided and I could talk to the people I considered friends which was a core group of the chat mods and an admin and at least one long term regular. In then end, they blocked ME because they blamed me for the complaints. I made my own wiki that's doing pretty well considering how young it is. So I use the alts to check up on the users I barely know that are trying to get promoted, so I can see if they behave when they think I'm not there. I actually encourage all my chat mods to have at least one alt account. Finally, helps if you're refreshing a lot to see changes or to clear PMs because you can still access backchat. I don't think these are malicious uses and thus, I call them alts, not socks. To me, a sock is when it's used for a malicious purpose.