User blog comment:Sannse/You and Your Socks/@comment-5558012-20160316163650

Personally a user should have no more than three accounts (a standard, bot, and/or test) operating on a wiki at one time and should clearly state who operates them. Problems occur when a user has multiple standard accounts (those where everyday manual edits and conversations take place), whether through intention or accident, because that user has an opinion. Assuming they are of good faith (if they aren't they are already a problem) they might just duplicate that opinion. I don't care if someone has a different username on every separate wiki they edit, they should never overlap them on a single "normal" wiki.

Situations get hazy with multiple accounts as well. Should one account be blocked after a block is issued to another? Then again we are blocking the user and not the account as mentioned above. What if we don't know all their accounts? They could still be participating on the wiki when they should be taking a timeout (a pointless block it would seem). Conversations/warnings/logs get lost between multiple accounts for the same user. I once dealt with a user that had six accounts (I blocked five of them). Life's much easier dealing with single accounts.