Is The Sock Puppet Warning Banner a Glitch? Or Sitewide?

[ExquisiteTopHat]

I seem to be getting a banner about making sock puppet accounts, which is quite odd, considering that I have never made anything of the sort.
As I cannot find any staff announcements on this, nor can I locate a staff communication forum, I am posting in the bugs section, because while there are multiple fellows with Top Hats for Avatars, I do not move in any of the same circles as they seem to. As such, I must confess confusion upon the matter.

If the banner is sitewide, you may wish to reformat it to something's slightly less directed and accusatory, or put a link to a thread elaborating on the matter within the banner.

As it is, my heart skipped a few beats upon seeing the banner.

If it is actually directed at me, I would appreciate a conversation/PM on the matter.

Thank you for your patience and hard work.

 

[Biigoh]

I seem to be getting a banner about making sock puppet accounts, which is quite odd, considering that I have never made anything of the sort.
As I cannot find any staff announcements on this, nor can I locate a staff communication forum, I am posting in the bugs section, because while there are multiple fellows with Top Hats for Avatars, I do not move in any of the same circles as they seem to. As such, I must confess confusion upon the matter.

If the banner is sitewide, you may wish to reformat it to something's slightly less directed and accusatory, or put a link to a thread elaborating on the matter within the banner.

As it is, my heart skipped a few beats upon seeing the banner.

If it is actually directed at me, I would appreciate a conversation/PM on the matter.

Thank you for your patience and hard work.

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Site wide as tehelgee can attest.

 

[ExquisiteTopHat]

Site wide as tehelgee can attest.

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Thank you for the clarification.
That's a worry off my shoulders.

 

[tehelgee]

Site wide as tehelgee can attest.

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Thank you for the clarification.
That's a worry off my shoulders.

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I can insert a tag into notices that replaces itself with the account name of the viewer.

"[USER NAME HERE], you are in deep shit!"

 

[january1may]

Incidentally, I've received some hearsay of the supposed reason the banner was made - specifically, that a member contacted one of the admins about possible renaming of their account, but was under the mistaken impression that direct renames were forbidden (they are, in fact, allowed), and proposed an account abandonment solution (of the type disallowed in the banner) instead.
Supposedly - again, according to what I've heard - the member in question was then immediately banned before they could explain what they actually wanted any further.

Does that description have any basis in reality, and if it's at least vaguely a description (possibly a misleading one) of an actual incident, what did actually happen? (From your perspective, at least.)
The way it was described to me was so ridiculous that I was seriously considering immediately going ahead and complaining on their behalf, but I didn't want to make a special thread for it because I felt that I was too likely to just get banned for it myself (that and I didn't think I could help much either way... even assuming it wasn't all just an overblown exaggeration in the first place).

 

[BrokenAscendent]

I seem to be getting a banner about making sock puppet accounts, which is quite odd, considering that I have never made anything of the sort.
As I cannot find any staff announcements on this, nor can I locate a staff communication forum, I am posting in the bugs section, because while there are multiple fellows with Top Hats for Avatars, I do not move in any of the same circles as they seem to. As such, I must confess confusion upon the matter.

If the banner is sitewide, you may wish to reformat it to something's slightly less directed and accusatory, or put a link to a thread elaborating on the matter within the banner.

As it is, my heart skipped a few beats upon seeing the banner.

If it is actually directed at me, I would appreciate a conversation/PM on the matter.

Thank you for your patience and hard work.

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I do declare;
My hat is better than yours;
In all manners, shape and form;

 

[ExquisiteTopHat]

I do declare;
My hat is better than yours;
In all manners, shape and form;

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Ah, but mine is embellished with a feather. And, as everyone knows, a feather makes any hat more 'pimpin'.

Thus, my hat is more suited to QQ.

Edit: you may wish to replace that last semicolon with a period.

 

[BrokenAscendent]

Ah, but mine is embellished with a feather. And, as everyone knows, a feather makes any hat more 'pimpin'.

Thus, my hat is more suited to QQ.

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You could be considered 'pimpin' but a full top hat has glamour and significance. It is providence of my omnipotence.

Edit: you may wish to replace that last semicolon with a period.

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no;

 

[MissileTeatime]

Incidentally, I've received some hearsay of the supposed reason the banner was made - specifically, that a member contacted one of the admins about possible renaming of their account, but was under the mistaken impression that direct renames were forbidden (they are, in fact, allowed), and proposed an account abandonment solution (of the type disallowed in the banner) instead.
Supposedly - again, according to what I've heard - the member in question was then immediately banned before they could explain what they actually wanted any further.

Does that description have any basis in reality, and if it's at least vaguely a description (possibly a misleading one) of an actual incident, what did actually happen? (From your perspective, at least.)
The way it was described to me was so ridiculous that I was seriously considering immediately going ahead and complaining on their behalf, but I didn't want to make a special thread for it because I felt that I was too likely to just get banned for it myself (that and I didn't think I could help much either way... even assuming it wasn't all just an overblown exaggeration in the first place).

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That honestly sounds like it could apply to the "I'm doing it manually" case over on SV. Which if it is, well, if you're at all familiar with the case in question you realize what I really mean when I say I'm doing the Spock-eyebrow thing.

 

[tehelgee]

Supposedly - again, according to what I've heard - the member in question was then immediately banned before they could explain what they actually wanted any further.

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Only time I immediately banned someone in this kind of situation, they had actually created the alt account a while(months) back and had been using it.

 

[january1may]

That honestly sounds like it could apply to the "I'm doing it manually" case over on SV. Which if it is, well, if you're at all familiar with the case in question you realize what I really mean when I say I'm doing the Spock-eyebrow thing.

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Only time I immediately banned someone in this kind of situation, they had actually created the alt account a while(months) back and had been using it.

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It does sound like the member in question was under a misinterpretation similar to that of the SV case. They were not (supposedly) arguing much, however (and if they were, they would likely have realized that their idea was wrong).

And the incident was supposed to have happened within the last few weeks, if not days - i.e. shortly before the creation of the banner.